ABSTRACT
Economic planning in Zambia's first decades of independence was pioneering and bold in its policy recommendations. In spite of its post-independence economic success, rural development and inequalities were neglected and the period after 1970 became difficult years for Zambia and its economy. After the break-up of federation and independence the following October, Zambia became for the rest of the 1960s the fastest-growing economy in the whole of Africa, mainly as a result of regaining and retaining the copper revenues and of rising copper prices. The new government adopted a Transitional Development Plan for January 1965 to June 1966, using the rapidly expanding government revenues to give priority for an extraordinarily rapid expansion of secondary education, with new secondary schools to be built in every province of the country. The author was heavily involved in the Office of National Development and Planning especially with organizing the survey on high-level manpower.
