Zimbabwe: 2025 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Zimbabwe

International Monetary Fund

No 2025/282, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: After facing significant macroeconomic volatility in recent decades, Zimbabwe has recently experienced a degree of stability thanks to tighter policies. The halting of quasi-fiscal operations and monetary financing by central bank have helped significantly reduce inflation and exchange rate pressures. Growth has recovered as extreme weather shocks subsided, and terms-of-trade significantly improved. But challenges remain from fiscal financing pressures with very limited access to official external financing and the accumulation of domestic arrears, low monetary policy credibility, a highly dollarized monetary system, low reserve buffers, a persistent gap between the official and parallel exchange rates, and economic governance vulnerabilities.

Pages: 85
Date: 2025-10-02
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