Zimbabwe: Stat's Unemployment Claim Misleading

11 December 2013

Statistical information sourced by bodies such as Zim Stat among others, is very critical as it helps Government to come up with homegrown solutions to some of the problems bedevilling our country. When such information is presented to the public, it is our hope that it will have been analysed and synthesised such that it sends correct signals to ordinary Zimbabweans.

The news this week that Zimbabwe has an unemployment rate of 11 percent, contrary to claims by some economists that it was more than 70 percent, raised many questions.

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