SOUTHERN AFRICA Represented by Zambia Zimbabwe Malawi Namibia

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• The major economic problems to be tackled
• Low out put
• Keeping inflation low
• Fluctuation of the currency
• Rising unemployment
• Under employment and low productivity

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• 6. Higher taxation
• 7. Rising corruption for higher ranking
  officials
• 8. Poverty is high
• 9. HIVAIDS and malaria
• 10. Education standards very low
• 11. Growing foreign debt

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• Key Objectives to be achieved
• 1. Creation of employment
• 2. Increase in national output (GDP)
• 3. Low tax Pay as you earn
• 4. Eradication of HIV/Aids
• 5. Stop corruption
• 6. Improved education standards
• 7. Stop foreign debt

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• How to achieve our objectives1. Government to
  increase expenditure on new projects which will
  lead to creation of employment
• 2. Investment in new technology
• 3. Raising the tax threshold and introduction
  of other tax systems to cover the informal sector

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• 4. Government should find more people or
  companies to pay tax so that it has more revenue
  to pay medical staff and to build more hospitals,
  educational standards and also reduce foreign
  debt.
• 5. The improvement and tightening control
  mechanism in the system of taxation of companies,
  such system to be transparent and easy to use in
  the revenue collection e.g final deduction
  system.