In recent decades, Zimbabwe’s development record has been disappointing. In the last few years, a severe drought and the Covid-19 pandemic have added to the country’s development challenges. This paper is concerned with the long-run need to find a path toward faster growth in GDP,...

This study investigated the effect of international tourism development on economic growth in Zimbabwe, using time series data spanning over the period 1980 to 2017. The main aim of the study was to examine whether international tourism is a pathway to economic recovery in Zimbabwe. The study...

Focusing mainly on industry has not been optimal policy in Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Zimbabwe. For maximum economywide growth, it would have been better to balance policies to facilitate growth in all three sectors: Agriculture, industry, and services.Blunch and Verner analyze and compare...

The existence of a macro wage curve shows that wages in Zimbabwe are flexible. So, the labor market adjusts to both negative and positive economic shocks. The main cause of falling real wages in Zimbabwe is reduced economic activity.There is little available information about what determines...

The study employs the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to examine the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) in the mining sector on the Zimbabwe economy, while controlling for both non-mining FDI and domestic investment. Using data over the period 1988-2018, this...