{"id":16604,"date":"2019-12-11T22:48:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T20:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=16604"},"modified":"2019-12-11T22:48:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T20:48:39","slug":"we-are-no-longer-short-of-foreign-exchange-eddie-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/we-are-no-longer-short-of-foreign-exchange-eddie-cross","title":{"rendered":"We Are No Longer Short Of Foreign Exchange \u2013 Eddie Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/Eddie_Cross\">Eddie Cross<\/a>\u00a0writing for the Newsday said the foreign currency shortage in this country is gone.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.pindula.co.zw\/2019\/12\/11\/eddie-cross-christmas-wishlists-for-his-country\/\">Cross was listing his Christmas wishlist<\/a>\u00a0when he said:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026We are no longer short of foreign exchange. In 2019, the fundamental reforms implemented under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme have given a huge boost to our export industries and official inflows of hard currency has exceeded our needs for the very first time in many years. My estimate is that total receipts this year will exceed US$7 billion while direct imports of all our essentials will only reach US$5,6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>However, fuel, medication and electricity are still in short supply despite Eddie\u2019s declarations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist\u00a0Eddie Cross\u00a0writing for the Newsday said the foreign currency shortage in this country is gone.\u00a0Cross was listing his Christmas wishlist\u00a0when he said: \u2026We are no longer short of foreign exchange. In 2019, the fundamental reforms implemented under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme have given a huge boost to our export industries and official inflows of hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":16605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[239,402],"class_list":{"0":"post-16604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-economy","9":"tag-economic-chaos","10":"tag-electricity"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>We Are No Longer Short Of Foreign Exchange \u2013 Eddie Cross - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Economist\u00a0Eddie Cross\u00a0writing for the Newsday said the foreign currency shortage in this country is gone.\u00a0Cross was listing his Christmas wishlist\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/we-are-no-longer-short-of-foreign-exchange-eddie-cross\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We Are No Longer Short Of Foreign Exchange \u2013 Eddie Cross\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Economist\u00a0Eddie Cross\u00a0writing for the Newsday said the foreign currency shortage in this country is gone.\u00a0Cross was listing his Christmas wishlist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/we-are-no-longer-short-of-foreign-exchange-eddie-cross\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-11T20:48:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2019\/12\/Forex.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"422\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/we-are-no-longer-short-of-foreign-exchange-eddie-cross\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/we-are-no-longer-short-of-foreign-exchange-eddie-cross\",\"name\":\"We Are No Longer Short Of Foreign Exchange \u2013 Eddie Cross - 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