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A Measurement of The 2022 Budget Allocations On Marketing Performance Across Key Economic Sectors A Zambian Perspective
A Measurement of The 2022 Budget Allocations On Marketing Performance Across Key Economic Sectors A Zambian Perspective
ISSN No:-2456-2165
Abstract:- The Ministry of Finance in Zambia announced measure that impact of these increased allocation on
a 173 billion national budget with an increase of CDF Marketing performance across the key economic growth
funds. The increase in CDF funds is expected to result into sectors.
high economic growth and ultimately increase marketing
performance across the key economic sectors which are A. Problem Statement
Agriculture, Tourism, Mining and commerce. This The impact of the increase in sector allocation on
research measures the impact of the 2022 resource Marketing performance across key sectors is not known and
allocations on the marketing performance in each key requires estimates to be made in order to have a realistic
economic sector. There has been no measure of the expectation of Marketing performance by 2023 in Zambia.
relationship between budgetary allocations and marketing The research aims to measure the 2022 budget allocations on
performance across the key economic sectors particularly Marketing performance across key economic sectors in
for the 2022 national budget. The research used a survey Zambia.
with 110 respondents who provided answers to address the
research questions. The major finding was that there is a B. Objectives
relationship between resource allocation and marketing 1. To determine the extent to which resource allocations in
performance across the economic growth sectors. the 2022 nation budget impact Marketing in Zambia
2. To evaluate the implications of the increase in CDF from
Keywords:- Budget, Marketing, Performance, Sector, 1.6 million to 25.6 million on awareness and
Growth. communication role in constituencies in Zambia
3. To determine the relationship between Marketing activities
I. INTRODUCTION and economic growth
A. Sampling method
The sampling method was random sampling, the
researcher opted to use random sampling in order to get views
that were unbiased. During the data collection process the
Source (Bank of Zambia Monetary policy report and the
researcher distributed a structured questionnaire with closed
World Bank Overview Report)
ended questions generated through a Google form link.
The projections by the World Bank and the Bank of
Zambia seem to be pointing in the same direction of economic B. Comparisons of revenue allocation to the key economic
sectors
growth except on inflation which reported an actual increase
in 2021 by the Bank of Zambia by 2.8% in the first two
quarters of 2021 as key economic industry activities increased.
Marketing activities in the country depend very much on the
cash flows as projected by the Ministry of Finance since this
is what determines the buying power of government ministries
and policy support to the key economic sectors. Fiscal deficit
on a cash basis was expected to rise by 11.7% of GDP in 2021
(PMRC, 2020). For 2022 PMRC projects Fiscal deficit on a
cash basis at around 11.6% to 12.3% citing that contribution
from the agriculture sector is unstable with relative declines
from 15.6% in 2010 to 2.73% in 2019 (World Bank, 2020).
The Zambian government pronounced an increase in Fig 4: Increase in CDF leading to increase in awareness and
CDF of 94% in the 2022 budget with a view to improve communication roles
awareness and development at constituency level (Zambia
Yellow Books, 2022). The increase in CDF is expected to The skewness of the data is confirmed by the findings in
boost Marketing activities in the key economic sectors. Table Table 12 below which shows a skewness of -1 confirming
11 shows 51.8% of respondents indicated that they strongly that the data is negatively skewed to support the assumption
agreed that the increase in CDF implies more communication that increase in CDF allocation will result into increase in
and awareness in roles within constituencies. awareness and communication.
Increase in CDF from RO2 was framed as: To evaluate the implications of the
ZMK 1.6 Million to increase in CDF from 1.6 million to 25.6 million. Clearly the
findings in Table 11 confirm that the increase in CDF from 1.6
ZMK 25.7 Million
Million to 25.7 million will result in increase in Marketing
implies more 48.826 109 .000 4.273 4.10 4.45 activities, the results of the Anova test in Table 16 also show
communication and that the significance between the two variables in RO1 and
awareness roles in
RO2 is 0.00 further confirming that findings for both
objectives are fully addressed. Lindgren & Lindgren in their
constituencies research indicated that Marketing is essential in development
Economic growth in of a community, city or nation, further supporting the findings
Zambia depends
in this research (Lindgren & Lindgren, 2011).
40.579 109 .000 3.973 3.78 4.17
largely on Marketing
RO3 was phrased as; To determine the relationship
activities between Marketing activities and economic growth. Research
Marketing in sectors
findings in Table 15 show that there is a strong correlation
between the question of increase in CDF and economic
such as Tourism,
growth, this is empirical evidence that there is a very strong
Agriculture, Mining relationship between increase in resource allocation and
80.835 109 .000 4.709 4.59 4.82
and Commerce is
economic growth. Table 15 further shows a strong relationship
between increased awareness and communication in
critical to attaining
constituencies and economic growth. A research conducted by
growth Allen et al who investigated the role of Marketing in economic
development in Africa-Tanzania found that Marketing had an
impact on people on people since it has the ability to change
behaviors (Allen, et al., 2017). The findings by Allen et al are
The significance in the Anova test in Table 16 is 0.00 a strong confirmation that purely there is a relationship
confirming the strong relationships among the variables and between Marketing and national economic growth.
also implying that the increase in resource allocations
increases Marketing performance. The DF value is also very VIII. CONCLUSIONS
high at 109 <27 and this means that the variable relationship
is very significant confirming the Null hypothesis rejection. This research brought out findings that there is a
The test value is 0 and the interval confidence level is 95% relationship between resource allocation and Marketing
implying a high significance in the assertion that increase in performance. The increase in resource allocation in CDF from
budgetary allocations across the key sectors will result in an 1.6 Million to 25.7 Million is expected to give increase in
increase in Marketing performance. A P value of .00 implies Marketing activities since awareness and communication
that there are significant relationships among the variables activities are expected to take center stage. Crop Marketing is
tested and in Table 16 the P value for all the relationships was a huge component in the performance of the agriculture sector
<0 with a DF of 109 confirming the strong relationships in Zambia, conversely sectors such as the retail sector and
among the variables tested (University of New England, Tourism are fully dependent on Marketing. Marketing cuts
2000). across all the four key sectors of economic development in