Is dependence on foreign aid here to stay?

But the good news is that concrete steps are being taken by these least developed nations, working together with the Brentwood Institutions - the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank - to address inadequacies in economic resource management framework which have reduced returns from programmes implemented so far.

An IMF delegation was recently in Zambia reviewing the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) for the fifth time to help boost the country's economic growth, which now stands at 5.5 percent, and reduce poverty levels.