The research was motivated by the need for Zimbabwe’s financial assistance to kick-start the recovery of its economy from the meltdown it has been for more than a decade. Since the formation of the government of national unity (GNU) on February 13, 2009, government of Zimbabwe’s (GoZ)...

The Zimbabwean economy is one of the many numbers of countries that has experienced a relatively high fiscal deficit for a prolonged period with the result of a high inflationary environment. This paper examines the deficit-inflation nexus in the Zimbabwean economy and establishes the causal...

The study narrates the decline in access to three basic publicly provided services, namely, health, education, and water and sanitation for Zimbabwe for the period covering 2000 to May 2009. Special emphasis is placed on the impact of fiscal fragility on the ability of the government to provide...

After employing a number of qualitative methodologies in investigating and analyzing the devastating hardships and sufferings inflicted on ordinary Zimbabweans by the hyperinflationary environment bedeviling the country, the study found some interesting things. Some of the hardships and...

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This study investigated the extent to which the implementation of the COMESA-EAC-SADC tripartite free trade area (T-FTA) will impact on the 26 participating member countries. The impact analysis was done with respect to welfare implications. The World...</p>

The second economy in Zimbabwe have grown from a low level of less than 10% of official GDP at independence in 1980 to an all time higher share of 70 percent in 2008 before subsiding to a still higher percentage share of 52% by end of 2009. Overall, the estimates obtained from this study are...

The study estimates the long-run equilibrium relationship between money balance as a ratio of income and treasury bill rate for the Zimbabwean economy. These estimates are done for two periods, the entire period (using quarterly data) of 1980:01 to 2005:04 and the hyperinflationary period (using...