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Thursday, 06 December 2012 11:15
HARARE - The current economic empowerment and indigenisation drive has generated a lot of interest among many Zimbabweans’ albeit from very divergent perspectives. While it is a norm that in any country, the natives of that particular land should have a...Read More
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Friday, 30 November 2012 10:55
HARARE - Zimbabweans have had enough of President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF failures, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said yesterday as he unveiled an election campaign plan that promises a million jobs in five years. The MDC leader was officially launching...Read More
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Wednesday, 21 November 2012 13:57
HARARE - Zimbabwe could miss the projected five percent economic growth target next year as Finance minister Tendai Biti’s budget does not capacitate the productive sector, economic analysts said. The analysts said Biti needs to direct expenditure towards the sector. The...Read More
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Monday, 12 November 2012 12:56
HARARE - Temba Mliswa, president of the newly-formed lobby group Zimbabwe Economic Empowerment Council (Zeec), says the wealth-sharing process must be broad-based and defeat the notion that it is for a high-heeled few. Mliswa, addressing senior members of the organisation in...Read More
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Monday, 05 November 2012 13:23
HARARE - Finance minister Tendai Biti has revised further downwards the 2012 economic growth forecast to four percent from 5,6 percent due to a significant decline in agriculture production. Biti told lawmakers attending budget preparatory meeting in Victoria Falls that new...Read More
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Wednesday, 31 October 2012 10:53
HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says government is forging ahead with the Medium Term Plan (MTP) amid slowing economic growth and the first signs of coalition tensions over missed fiscal targets. Senior Zanu PF officials have roundly blamed Tsvangirai’s MDC...Read More
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Friday, 26 October 2012 10:16
HARARE - Finance minister Tendai Biti says Zimbabwe needs to develop economic clusters in every province to specialise in products where they have better comparative advantage. Speaking at a 2013 budget consultation meeting in Bulawayo on Thursday, Biti said provinces should...Read More
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Monday, 22 October 2012 11:54
BEITBRIDGE - Beitbridge town has been selected as an economic zone, in a move likely to boost exports and stimulate production, deputy minister of Investment and Economic Planning Samuel Undenge says. Undenge told the visiting South African trade delegation at the...Read More
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Wednesday, 17 October 2012 13:42
HARARE - National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has revised downwards its target move from 6,8 million metric tonnes of goods this year to 3,8 million tonnes owing to the current economic challenges, general manager Mike Karakadzai said. Addressing delegates at a...Read More
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Business » Taurai Mangudhla, Business Writer
Wednesday, 03 October 2012 09:39
HARARE - Zimbabwe needs urgent solutions to economic challenges highlighted at its August High-Level Economic Forum to maintain a growth trajectory, the African Development Bank (AfDB) says. The Finance ministry convened the high-level forum in Victoria Falls and identified low gross...Read More
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News » Taurai Mangudhla, Business Writer
Monday, 17 September 2012 13:19
HARARE - The Global Political Agreement (GPA) signed exactly four year ago in September 2008, is yet to bear much fruit economically. The GPA was to give birth to an inclusive government four months later in February 2009 and try to...Read More
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Tuesday, 28 August 2012 11:21
HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has unveiled an economic blueprint with measures to create jobs and lure billions in investment if the party wins the forthcoming watershed general election. The stimulus measures, the latest in a flurry of...Read More
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