06.03.2020 | Zimbabwe and the sanctions myth
Alaco challenges Harare's claim that investor reluctance to engage with Zimbabwe is due to international sanctions.
Click here to read the Alaco article in International Investment.
It has the potential to become one of the more prosperous economies in Africa, given its educated workforce, mineral riches and some of the most fertile farmland on the continent. Yet investors continue to keep Zimbabwe at arms’ length despite the fall of Robert Mugabe over two years ago. His successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has blamed investors’ reluctance to engage on EU and American sanctions, but the assertion, as this Alaco Insight Briefing shows, has little or no foundation and serves only to distract attention from the government’s own woeful management of the economy.
- Our insight
- —Notes from the field
- —Collective intelligence