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6 days ago | May 7, 2021
Savings culture needs low inflation
One important element of any expanding economy is the mobilisation of domestic savings, money that individuals and ...
2 weeks ago | April 30, 2021
EIB facility sends a strong signal
The decision by the European Investment Bank, the European Union’s bank owned by its member states, to extend a 15 ...
3 weeks ago | April 23, 2021
Referees need their red cards
Over the next year Zimbabwean businesses and producers are going to have to think a great deal more seriously about ...
4 weeks ago | April 16, 2021
Local businesses can be created
Indigenisation as a policy received a bad reputation and the way it was set out was a major brake on much needed ...
1 month ago | April 9, 2021
What AfCFTA means for Zimbabwe
The African Continental Free Trade Area came into operation at the beginning of the year but this was just the start of ...
1 month ago | April 2, 2021
Small businesses need system change
Small businesses, especially new small businesses, face a myriad of problems from financing and marketing through ...
IUCN Red List deals fresh blow to ivory trade push
Business Writer Elephants on the African rangeland have been placed on the International Union for Conservation of ...
2 months ago | March 26, 2021
Auctions kill crony capitalism
Crony capitalism has been identified in many studies as a serious problem in many countries, hampering the entry of new ...
2 months ago | March 19, 2021
RBZ list fascinating reading
The list published by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe of the top hundred bidders on the foreign currency auctions has few ...
2 months ago | March 5, 2021
State projects good for business
Amid the pressures on many businesses, with recovery from the two-month Level Four national lockdown leading the pack, ...
3 months ago | February 26, 2021
Choose to finish what you start
Arthur Marara The difference between winners and losers is that winners finish what they start while losers don’t. This ...
Problem of accidental monopolies
There has been concern in Zimbabwe that monopolies, near monopolies and market dominance can lead to price distortions ...
3 months ago | February 19, 2021
Businesses must continue leadership
The easing of the Level Four national lockdown, and in particular the modest relaxation of curfew and the introduction ...
3 months ago | February 5, 2021
Crop pricing needs careful thought
There is a lot of debate over guaranteed producer prices for farmers growing crops under Government-funded programmes, ...
3 months ago | January 29, 2021
New signals in the auction market
The foreign currency auctions run by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe set the exchange rate through a market mechanism ...
4 months ago | January 22, 2021
Businesses need to plan and innovate
While the infection rates for Covid-19 appear to be going down very slowly, the death figures, which measure the ...
4 months ago | January 15, 2021
The promise of AfCFTA
On January 1, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) came into force.
4 months ago | January 8, 2021
Business needs good ideas on lockdown
Most businesses would have seen the major challenge to the new year being the return to Level Four national lockdown and ...
4 months ago | January 1, 2021
Consumer protection can help business
The Consumer Protection Act, passed into law in mid-year, did not cause much of a splash when it was gazetted, but it is ...
5 months ago | December 28, 2020
‘Next year will be better’
Businesspeople are a bit like farmers at year end, saying to themselves that “next year will be better”, except that ...
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