Summary of the 13-point plan

*Mobilise a specific amount of foreign currency to stabilize the exchange rate and ensure sufficient importation of food, fuel and inputs to agriculture and industry;
*Create a primary budget surplus (ie surplus before interest payments);
*Put in place a credible, transparent pricing mechan


ism that ensures both business viability and affordability for consumers for controlled and monitored products through the framework from the social contract;
*Remove all pricing misalignments including that for foreign currency
*Put in place safety nets for vulnerable groups;
*Finalise the land issue and investment laws so as to create a climate conducive for investment;
*Finalise the issue of security of tenure in agriculture so as to increase agricultural output thereby stimulating production and economic revival;
*Rehabilitate key infrastructure such as water, roads, power and coal;
*Mobilise/launch national housing initiative to clear backlog in housing and create employment;
*Revive urban and rural transportation;
*Stem exodus of skills by putting in place appropriate legislative and other measures;
*Reform and restructure public enterprises; and
*Finally, once the internal package of measures achieves traction, leverage this to seek external balance of payment support on favourable terms.”
Mugabe then told the business leaders that they should add on their list another point that Britain and her allies remove sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe.


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