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Weekly economic bulletin
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition
September 13, 2007

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Introduction

On Thursday, 30 August 2007, the Minister of Finance, Samuel Mumbengegwi presented the Z$37.1 trillion supplementary budget in the August House. The budget was four times the initial budget. This entails that the government proposes to stray from the funds which it had allocated for its activities quadruple. Hence 75% of the state consumption was not budgeted for leaving two main options; it will either borrow from finance its undisciplined behaviour or print more money as a remedy. This week, we are analyzing the effects of the poor fiscal policy regime on the national fiscus and propose the way forward.

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