Sinosure debt stalls Chinese funding

Business Writers The implementation of multi-billion dollar energy and telecommunications deals in Zimbabwe is under threat due to delays in the repayment of a $60 million debt to China Export…

RBZ questions the use of Bitcoins

Prosper Ndlovu Bulawayo Bureau The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has dispatched a team of experts to interrogate the use of Bitcoins and other crypto-currencies as central banks across the globe…

ZSE records biggest monthly turnover

Kudzanai Sharara The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange recorded its biggest monthly turnover since dollarisation after the October 2017 turnover breached the monthly record turnover achieved in

Zimra seeks to cash in. . . as Bitcoin soars to $12 000 locally

By Jeffrey Gogo As the price of Bitcoin on the local exchange Golix.io this week hit a world record $12 000, almost twice the global rate, tax collector Zimra is…

IMF report: Falling behind in tomorrow’s comparative advantages…While exploiting current resources investment should go into the future

The IMF recently launched the sub-Sahara Economic Outlook 2017 in Harare. This was an intentional choice by the IMF; a gesture Zimbabweans could appreciate to an extent as the

OK wins in Harare CBD as the cheapest store

The cheapest supermarket in Harare’s CBD is OK Zimbabwe with the retailer carrying the most competitive line items, according to a central business district survey carried by the Business Weekly.…

Sub-Saharan economies in debt distress: IMF

Conrad Mwanawashe The number of low-income countries in debt distress or facing high risk of debt distress in sub-Saharan Africa increased to 12 in 2016 from seven in 2013 driven…

Zim-Asset needs better co-ordination

My Two Cents Last week, the Office of the President and Cabinet led a Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation review meeting which sought to take stock of the

Govt tasks CCZ to create basic commodities price list

Livingstone Marufu Government has come up with a cocktail of measures to avert potential food shortages during the festive season and early next year. These new procedures came after panicking

Chiefs, the central state and development in Zimbabwe

Dr Tinashe Nyamunda Many people assume that statecraft and chieftaincy have no bearing on the economic fortunes of Zimbabwe when in fact they are inextricably connected. 

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