Taking Stock
3 years ago | January 22, 2021
We need to, we can reduce our import bill
After a three-week break, the foreign currency auction trading system resumed, in earnest, on January 12.
3 years ago | December 4, 2020
Capital markets: Zim striking right chords
Capital markets are a general category of markets that facilitate the buying and selling of securities with medium-term ...
3 years ago | November 20, 2020
NDS1: Where will funding come from, and how much?
Kudzanai Sharara Taking Stock Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube, through the National Development ...
4 years ago | July 10, 2020
Auction system a positive development
How long will we have to wait for foreign currency stability? It’s now three weeks into Zimbabwe’s new foreign currency ...
4 years ago | February 21, 2020
To de-dollarise or re-dollarise, that is the question
There are serious debates taking place among economists, policymakers and Zimbabweans in general on whether the economy ...
4 years ago | February 14, 2020
Zim economy: Are we clouded in our judgment?
This week I had a chance to interview the new CBZ Holdings chairman Marc Holtzman. This was probably one of the first ...
4 years ago | January 31, 2020
Why MPC kept interest rates unchanged
The Monetary Policy Committee appeared more confident in its stance on interest rates at the last policy meeting, with ...
4 years ago | January 24, 2020
Closing social mobility gap
The Global Social Mobility Index 2020 report is out and it shows most economies are failing to provide the conditions in ...
4 years ago | January 17, 2020
Inflation slowdown: Rate stability cited
Taking Stock Kudzanai Sharara This week, Zimstat released the last set of inflation figures for the 2019 calendar year ...
4 years ago | December 13, 2019
SME led growth strategy: Zim must unify dual economies
In a discussion with one banking executive one day, his candid question to me was where do you foresee growth coming ...
4 years ago | November 29, 2019
Interrogating Pepkor’s investment in Zim
The recently announced planned exit of Pepkor Holdings Limited from Zimbabwe where it is operating a non-grocery ...
4 years ago | November 15, 2019
Importance of competition for growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Business Weekly interviewed Patrick Imam, IMF Resident Representative based in Harare, on the importance of competition ...
ZSE envision a positive uptake of traded funds
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) says it will this month conduct an Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) training in Harare to ...
5 years ago | September 13, 2019
Monetary Policy Committee: Why we need one
Why give the power to decide interest rates to a committee? This is the first question former deputy governor of the ...
5 years ago | August 30, 2019
Earnings season: The outlook is challenging
The earnings season has started in earnest with several listed entities having reported results for the period ended 30 ...
5 years ago | August 2, 2019
Let’s up the ante on corruption
In 2018, Zimbabwe was ranked number 160 on the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) by Transparency International. The ...
5 years ago | July 26, 2019
Understanding economic cost of power shortages
Zimbabwe is currently experiencing crippling power shortages. As of yesterday, most parts of the country, including ...
5 years ago | June 7, 2019
Fiscal surplus: Let Ncube harp away
Living in Zimbabwe can be really frustrating especially when one has to contend with galloping prices and shortage of ...
5 years ago | April 17, 2019
Inflation could hamper real GDP growth
Nobody cared much about this week’s inflation figures for the month of March released by ZimStat as the outcome was ...
5 years ago | April 12, 2019
IMF forecasts GDP contraction, here is why
The International Monetary Fund this week released economic growth forecast for the world including a negative Gross ...
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