{"id":16800,"date":"2019-12-15T21:21:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T19:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=16800"},"modified":"2019-12-15T21:21:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T19:21:25","slug":"why-the-zimbabwe-economy-is-hobbling-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/why-the-zimbabwe-economy-is-hobbling-report","title":{"rendered":"Why The Zimbabwe Economy Is Hobbling \u2013 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the country is in a dire economic crisis, the economy hobbling is directly or indirectly exacerbated by the Finance minister\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/Mthuli_Ncube\">Mthuli Ncube<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/Reserve_Bank_of_Zimbabwe\">Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe<\/a>\u00a0governor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/John_Mangudya\">John Mangudya<\/a>\u00a0<em>pursuing different agendas and at times issue directives without informing each other, two people with direct knowledge of the situation said<\/em>\u00a0according to The Standard<\/p>\n<p>While Ncube, a Cambridge-trained economist, is often accused of being overly optimistic, his push to cut spending and bring order to chaotic government finances has been lauded. By comparison, Mangudya, an appointee of former president Robert Mugabe, is seen as a governor who puts political considerations ahead of rational economic decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Sources that spoke to the publication about the supposed rift between the 2 RBZ and Treasury bosses said:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the country is in a dire economic crisis, the economy hobbling is directly or indirectly exacerbated by the Finance minister\u00a0Mthuli Ncube\u00a0and\u00a0Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe\u00a0governor\u00a0John Mangudya\u00a0pursuing different agendas and at times issue directives without informing each other, two people with direct knowledge of the situation said\u00a0according to The Standard While Ncube, a Cambridge-trained economist, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":16801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[450,807,653],"class_list":{"0":"post-16800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-files","9":"tag-mangudya","10":"tag-mthuli-ncube","11":"tag-rbz"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - 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