Weekend Read| The Most Expensive Thing an Economy Can Lose Is Time
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Tinotenda Bhunu HARARE – ECONOMISTS often talk about inflation, interest rates, exchange rates and fiscal deficits. These are important indicators, but they can distract us from a more…
Weekend Read: Growth is a Choice But Zimbabwe’s Businesses Are Choosing Caution
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Tinotenda Bhunu HARARE – ECONOMIC decline is not always announced by a recession. Sometimes it arrives quietly. There are no dramatic headlines. Supermarkets remain open. Banks continue operating.…
WB cuts Zimbabwe 2026 growth forecast to 4.6%
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy ETimes HARARE – THE World Bank (WB), in its June 2026 Global Economic Prospects report, has revised down Zimbabwe’s 2026 economic growth projection to 4.6% from 5.0% forecast…
How Zimbabwe Just Built a Financial Engine for the Digital Age
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesZimbabwe Just Flipped a Switch That Could Change How Money Works Here FINSEC has built the blockchain rails for tokenised assets, and the ripple effects could reach your neighbourhood…
Zimbabweans Struggle Despite Signs of African Economic Recovery – Report
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy ETimes HARARE – MOST Zimbabweans continue to face severe economic hardship despite signs of recovery across parts of Africa, with rising living costs, unemployment and shortages of basic…
Zimbabwe’s M&A Game Has One Rule You Must Learn
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Jabulani Simplisio Chibaya HARARE – A DEEP dive into Zimbabwe’s merger regulation landscape, what the Competition and Tariff Commission really does, and what it means for you. There…
How AI, Hype and Fear Built a Profitable Perception Economy
TweetShareSharePin0 Sharesthe business of selling the future By Howard Mabhugu HARARE – IN modern markets, the future itself has become a product. Artificial Intelligence is currently its most successful version.…
How SADC and AU Can Protect Economic Growth From Future Shocks
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Tonderai Godknows Mapfumo HARARE – THE COVID-19 pandemic, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and Russia’s war in Ukraine are not merely sequential crises that happened to…
ANALYSIS| Bridge Finance Bid Lifts Lid on Zimbabwe’s Governance Gaps
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesBy Tonderai Godknows Mapfumo HARARE – ZIMBABWE’S pursuit of $2.5 billion in bridge financing to clear arrears with international lenders represents far more than a routine sovereign debt negotiation.…
Stability or Illusion?
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesAn Austrain Reading of Zimbabwe’s 2026 Monetary Shift By Jabulani Simplisio Chibaya HARARE – ZIMBABWE’S latest monetary snapshot for Q1 2026 presents what, on the surface, appears to be…