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SWF shift the balance of power

The current shift of financial power from multi-national organizations such as World Bank, I.F.C and others to Sovereign Wealth Funds presents developing nations such as Zimbabwe with a new source of foreign direct investment. A sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is a state-owned fund composed of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, property or other financial instruments. Sovereign wealth funds have gained world-wide exposure by investing in several Wall Street financial firms. These firms needed a cash infusion due to losses resulting from the credit crunch caused by the mortgage meltdown which started in the USA.

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Zimbabwe Needs a Modern Progressive Economic Policy PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 19 December 2008

Many analysts and observers have linked Zimbabwe’s current economic decline to the land reform and in particular the way it was implemented on the fast track mode. Land reform is an often-controversial alteration in the societal arrangements whereby government administers possession and use of land. .Economies tend to follow a developmental progression that takes them from a heavy reliance on (Land) agriculture and mining, toward the development of industry (e.g. technology, textiles, shipbuilding, steel) and finally toward a more service based structure which becomes the main drivers of all economic activity and economic growth.

 
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Zimbabwe economic recovery and Ministry of Home Affairs PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 01 November 2008


There is a causal link between Zimbabwe's economic melt-down and the
breakdown of the rule of law .The Ministry of Home Affairs has to be under untainted hands if the economy is to attract investors and increase production. ZANU-PF maintains that the real cause of the economic meltdown is the sanctions regime under which the country has been left with no choice but to resort to unorthodox economic and political methods.
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Zimbabwe economic recovery beyond the politics PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 22 June 2008

There is urgent need for a stakeholder conference to start mobilizing resources for Zimbabwe’s economic recovery .The current economic decline will require more resources to get the economy on a productive and growth path again. Whilst politics has taken the spotlight for a better part of the last decade, it’s imperative that a national economic vision blue print be developed beyond any party or political lines. The economic vision blueprint will then act as guideline to mobilize financial, human and other resources necessary to get Zimbabwe’s Economy to work and full capacity to create desperately needed jobs and produce basics that are in short supply.
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Success beyond land reform PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 18 May 2008
Many commentators and observers have linked Zimbabwe’s current economic decline to the land reform and in particular the way it was put on the fast track mode. Land reform is an often-controversial alteration in the societal arrangements whereby government administers possession and use of land. .Economies tend to follow a developmental progression that takes them from a heavy reliance on (Land) agriculture and mining, toward the development of industry (e.g. technology, textiles, shipbuilding, steel) and finally toward a more service based structure.

 

 
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