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Zimbabwe: Government Scheme to Access Forex Blocks Small Business
IPS, 27 January 2009
The ZANU-PF government's efforts to gain access to foreign exchange (also known as forex) by imposing an expensive licensing system on Zimbabwean enterprises, enforced with the… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Countrywide Strikes On the Increase As Demand for Forex Grows
SW Radio, 23 January 2009
A growing number of working groups across the country have downed tools in a bid to have their salaries paid in foreign currency - this as the full dollarisation of the economy is… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Asset Managers Beg to Deal in Forex
Zimbabwe Standard, 24 January 2009
ASSET management firms have pleaded with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to be allowed to manage foreign currency investments and save the sector from imminent collapse. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: 'Dollarisation' of Economy Hitting Poor Hard
IPS, 24 January 2009
The collapse of the Zimbabwean economy has led to the "dollarisation" of the economy - and even to what some, who have still maintained some sense of tragicomedy, call the… Read more »