Zambia’s central bank has raised the benchmark lending rate to 10.25% from 9.75% to counter inflationary pressure and support macroeconomic stability, its central bank governor Denny Kalyalya said on Wednesday.
Annual inflation is expected to remain above the upper band of the 6-8 percent target over the next eight quarters, Kalyalya told journalists.
Kalyalya said developments in the mining sector had a bearing on the economy and he hoped an amicable solution would be found with mining companies so that focus is on production.
