Zambia: Government scraps fuel subsidies
Issue 254
- 17 May 2013
| 2 minute read
Fuel prices have risen by more than 21% after the government scrapped its increasingly costly subsidy regime. When he was elected in 2011, President Michael Sata’s Patriotic Front government removed a levy used to fund strategic fuel reserves and introduced a subsidy to keep down prices.
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