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Zambia needs Supplementary Budget to balance costs, navigate potential emerging shocks

“Once Parliament dissolves in 72 days; seven weeks two days or two months two days, expenditure ceilings cannot be expanded without legislative approval, despite the Executive remaining in caretaker capacity, though understanding that the constitutional mandate has a leeway to work out but parliamentary system of approval could be considered as a more safer way to fiscal discipline” prods Zambian Social Economist Kelvin Chisanga