Zimbabwe: the challenge to de-politicize economic reform

In the nearly six months now since Zimbabwe held national elections, the country’s politics and economy remain almost at a standstill. To the government, opposition, and civil society, relief can’t come soon enough. The challenge, though, is reconciling what needs to change in order to unblock stasis. The President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) government has emphasized economic austerity measures, reducing the size of the civil service, and reducing the budget deficit, to get toward a sustainably balanced budget.  The Zimbabwean government has introduced amending some economic policies that had hitherto discouraged foreign investment, notably in potentially …

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