Opinion

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Enhancing your effectiveness

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing will suffice to solve most ...

Can amateur traders transform ZSE?

Mid-September last year, in a tweet, Zimbabwe Stock Exchange chief executive officer Justin Bgoni, made an interesting ...

Tourism on recovery path

Tourism is among the industries that have been hit hardest by the COVID-19 crisis. Over a year since the onset of the ...

Savings culture needs low inflation

One important element of any expanding economy is the mobilisation of domestic savings, money that individuals and ...

Cartoon 7 May, 2021

What are the sources of project finance?

Project finance comes from an assortment of sources. The major sources are equity, debt and government grants. The ...

Harness self discipline

“It is not enough to have great qualities, “we should also have the management of them” said that most quoted of ...

Intellectual property rights can help combat illicit trade

Trade of counterfeit goods leads to a loss of investment opportunities and job losses, and can be harmful to consumers. 

The vibe is correct but will foreign investors return?

Foreign portfolio investors on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange can be forgiven for their love-hate relationship with the ...

World’s industrial comeback drives metals to multi-year high

Industrial metals from copper to aluminium to iron ore have rallied to the highest level in years. 

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EIB facility sends a strong signal

The decision by the European Investment Bank, the European Union’s bank owned by its member states, to extend a 15 ...

Local businesses can be created

Indigenisation as a policy received a bad reputation and the way it was set out was a major brake on much needed ...

Auctions kill crony capitalism

Crony capitalism has been identified in many studies as a serious problem in many countries, hampering the entry of new ...

Why your company needs a shareholders’ agreement

Launching a business can be so exciting that it is difficult to imagine that anything might go wrong. This is especially ...

Where are my new prospects?

Getting to know where your new customers are, and how to get prospects in 2021 is key in growing your business for ...

RBZ should formalise merhant banking

A major financial factor in all agricultural economies is the time gap between delivery of harvest, when farmers want to ...

Evidence in on negative interest rate policies

Interest rates are low, and “lower for longer” has become something of a mantra among policy makers, regulators, and ...

From Brazil to Turkey, food prices spike worldwide

The world is racing to vaccinate its way out of the coronavirus pandemic, but another challenge has already emerged for ...