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US$3.5 billion 'fast track' compensation for Zimbabwe white ex-farmers: The facts and the economic fundamentals
In 2020, Zimbabwe agreed to compensate local white farmers, whose land was taken by the government from 2000 onwards to resettle black families, in one of the most emotive and divisive policies from Zimbabwe. While foreign white farmer...
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IT'S ABOUT TIME AFRICAN MONEY ADDRESSES AFRICAN CHALLENGES
IT'S ABOUT TIME AFRICAN MONEY ADDRESSES AFRICAN CHALLENGES
Africa needs to mobilise its domestic resources to address its development challenges.Some of Africa’s wealthy individuals and businesses have a tendency to accumulate capital in Africa and then transfer it abroad for “safekeeping”, where it is then ...
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Zimbabwe introduces CBDCs digital currency - the e-ZImbabwe dollar gold backed token.
Zimbabwe’s gambit on digital tokens and gold coins: the usual bluster or a genius move?
 Zimbabwe is on the verge of launching digital currency tokens backed by gold. This is according to the governor of the country's central bank, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ). The move is seen as an attempt to stabilise the new iteration of ...
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Behavioural Macroeconomic Risk Theory (BMRT) Risk Management AI Software
Are you involved in ASSESSING individuals or companies’ RISK LEVEL? Introducing the Behavioural Macroeconomic Risk Theory (BMRT) AI powered Software
Are you involved in assessing individuals or companies’ RISK LEVEL?Introducing the Behavioural Macroeconomic Risk Theory (BMRT) AI powered Software.Do you manage RISK in your sector? Such as Banks deciding which entities to give loans, Insurers ascer...
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BRICS to topple G7 as World’s Economic Superpower by 2050.
BRICS to topple G7 as World’s Economic Superpower by 2050
 Introduction:The rise of the BRICS and the decline of the G7The world is witnessing a profound shift in the balance of economic power, as the emerging economies of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are challenging t...
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Advice to Zimbabwe Finance Minister:  Open a Minerals Market Exchange in the country and replace USD with ZWL for all export transactions…
Advice to Zimbabwe Finance Minister: Open a Minerals Market Exchange in the country and replace USD with ZWL for all export transactions…
 Yes I said it. Zimbabwe should forego pursuing United States Dollars (USD) directly through exports of minerals but instead capacitate the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ), working alongside the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE), to set...
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ZIMRA Strategy to Enhance Tax Collection and avert future risks
ZIMRA Strategy to Enhance Tax Collection and avert future risks
The 5 Year Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) Official Strategic Map (ZIMRA 2021 - 2025) looks aesthetically pleasing, on paper. The feasibility of its implementation is on the ground can be strengthened further by narrowing components to easy to und...
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Financial Markets: Their Importance and Impact
Below is an except of a presentation I made teaching non-finacial managers of an engineering entity about the basics of Financial Markets...Financial Markets are the system through which companies, governments, and other entities are able to raise an...
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Is replacing the Central Bank with a Currency Board the panacea to Zimbabwe’s Monetary woes?
What is a Currency Board? What are the main functions of a Central Bank?For Zimbabwe, how will replacing the later with the former improve or infringe on these functions? Is a Currency Board effective dollarisation and surrender of economic inde...
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Arbitrage – the terminal wound bleeding the Zimbabwean economy
Zimbabwe’s economy has been teetering on the brink for a good two decades. Some would aver perhaps for more like three decades. The reasons for this, for such an erstwhile promising country at independence from colonial rule in 1980, are as varied as...
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Official Multi-currency system, gold coins and hyperinflation rates. Is this 2008 reloading?
Authorities in Zimbabwe are regularly in the news lately with one pronouncement or another altering current fiscal and monetary policy. Sometimes they will introduce a completely new one, only to reappear days later to rescind prior announcements. To...
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AfCFTA will launch Africa forward post Covid-19
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was established in 2018 with the aim to create a single market for goods and services, facilitated by movement of persons to deepen the economic integration of the African continent, under the Pan Afri...
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The Mathematics of Mosi-Oa-Tunya gold coins…. is it adding up?
The Mosi-oa-Tunya gold coins were made available for purchase by entities and the general public on Monday the 25 July 2022. The opening day price for each coin was US$1 823 or Z$805 000, reflective of the Willing Buyer Willing Seller (WBWS) exchang...
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