A key challenge of tackling public theft in Zambia is simply understanding its scale. The general public certainly has a sense of where public money has been stolen, but it appears they are missing key information on the extent of corruption. In practice there remains significant vacuum of information on the extent of such theft since Zambia became independent in 1964. There’s no universal agreement or public record of how much public money has been stolen or misappropriated since independence. The most authoritative estimate to date was undertaken by Djokotoe & Chama (2007), which puts an annual loss of around...
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