‘Zim economy faces multiple headwinds’ The Zimbabwe Independent
ZIMBABWE’S economy closed the year 2020 on a promising note. Annual inflation, although extremely high had declined to about 360% by December last year after rising to 837% in July. Exchange rate volatilities that had affected the economy until June 2020 when the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) introduced the foreign currency auction system had stabilised at the end of last year although pockets of volatilities could still be felt as Covid-19-induced lockdowns affected factories. These developments gave the central bank the confidence to predict this February that by the end of 2021, annual inflation would fall to less than 10%.