Zimbabwe: Zim Must Get It Right On Doing Business Reforms

9 December 2016
opinion

As Zimbabwe continues to implement measures and policies that will promote the inflow of investment into the economy, it has become imperative that Government accelerates reforms to the ease of doing business as this has been a drawback in achieving that goal. Not only has the country been persistently ranked poorly on the Global Competitiveness Report, but on the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business report and the Global Corruption Index as well, just to mention a few.

Zimbabwe is ranked number 126 out of 138 in the 2017 Competitiveness Report and number 161 out of 190 countries on the Ease of Doing Business Report. And this hasn't done much to restore investor confidence in the Southern African nation. But the fact that the highest office in the land has taken an active role in implementing Doing Business reforms makes attaining rankings below 100 in the next few years a more realistic vision to achieve.

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