Zimbabwe 20 years on: investment and development prospects

With its myriad of challenges, what kind of human development progress is likely in the next two decades?

This roundtable will discuss the results of new ISS research on Zimbabwe’s investment climate and long-term development prospects. In the face of great uncertainty, the ISS provides evidence-based analysis to help Zimbabwe’s government, its partners, advisors and neighbours make strategic decisions about the country’s future.

The first report explores current and future trajectories across the agriculture, demographic, education, economic, infrastructure and health sectors. Several factors could set Zimbabwe on a higher growth path, but not under the existing state-centred development paradigm.

The second study assesses Zimbabwe’s economy which has teetered on the edge of collapse for nearly two decades. Despite assurances that Zimbabwe is ‘open for business’, the country’s economic problems have intensified under President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Chair: Hanns Bühler, Hanns Seidel Foundation

Speakers: 

Ringisai Chikohomero, Researcher, ISS

Dr Jakkie Cilliers, Programme Head, ISS

Development partners
This event is funded by the Hanns Seidel Foundation, the Department for International Development (DFID) – UK and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. The ISS is also grateful for support from the members of the ISS Partnership Forum: the Hanns Seidel Foundation, the European Union and the governments of Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the USA.
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