• MAZ investigating reports of mealie meal shortage in Lusaka and some parts of the country.• Food Reserve Agency is offloading maize to the millers.•
• This is an indication that the country is not developing as expected.• The negative growth rate is due to less construction activities in 2022.•
• Interventions to keep the inflation rate within single digit may entail the MPC employing tight policy direction.• This may see the MPR raised slightly
• On average, prices of goods and services increased by 9.9 percent between December 2021 and December 2022.• This development was mainly attributed to movements