“Zero! Call it a number, integer, symbol or figure; it conjures some level of mystery. What does it connote? On the number line zero stands central to any value attached to anything; on the right are all positives while anything lying on the left side is less than zero, that is, all negatives. When participating in any competition be it an examination or some sport one scores or doesn’t; a positive value is attributed to the score(s) while zero is what is credited to the no-score – nothing.
Is the ever increasing appetite for foreign borrowing by developing and underdeveloped countries an endless phenomenon that blurs and obfuscates the authorities’ better judgments or an abstract economic notion that massive credits will somehow and miraculously transform into development? It is not argu
