Zimbabwe Business Forecast Report

Published: January 11 2010 Quarterly   

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The Zimbabwe Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Zimbabwe.

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Report Description

The Zimbabwe Business Forecast Report helps businesses with Zimbabwean market assessment, strategic planning and decision making to promote growth and profitability in Zimbabwe and is an essential tool for CEOs, Chairmen, Finance Directors/CFOs, Managing Directors, Marketing/Sales Directors with commercial interests in this emerging market.

An influential new analysis of Zimbabwe's political, economic and financial prospects through end-2014, just published by award-winning forecasters, Business Monitor International.

Key Uses

  • Forecast the pace and stability of Zimbabwe's economic and industry growth through end-2014
  • Identify and evaluate adverse political and economic trends in Zimbabwe, to facilitate risk mitigation
  • Assess the critical shortcomings of Zimbabwe's business environment that pose hidden barriers and costs to corporate profitability
  • Contextualise Zimbabwe's country risks against regional peers using BMI's country comparative risk ratings system
  • Target business opportunities in Zimbabwe's high-growth industry sectors
  • Evaluate external threats to doing business in Zimbabwe, including currency volatility, the commodity price boom and protectionist policies

The Zimbabwe Business Forecast Report by Business Monitor International (BMI) includes three major sections: Zimbabwe's Political Outlook, Zimbabwe's Economic Outlook and Zimbabwe's Business Environment.

Zimbabwe's Political Outlook:

What are the political risks to doing business in Zimbabwe over the next 5-years?

BMI's Zimbabwe Country Risk Ratings evaluate the short- and medium-term threats posed by government instability, adverse economic policy-making, deterioration in the business environment and external shocks.

Zimbabwe Political Outlook Contents

  • SWOT Analysis for the Zimbabwean Market
    Political strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing Zimbabwe.
  • Political Stability and Risk Assessment for Zimbabwe
    BMI's Risk Ratings assess explicit short and long-term risks to political stability; latest ratings, rankings and trends for Zimbabwe's risk are compared with regional and global averages.
  • Current Administration and Policy-making in Zimbabwe
    BMI profiles key policy-makers and power-brokers in the Zimbabwean government, assessing threats to the continuity of Zimbabwean economic policy, and likely changes to the business operating environment through end-2018.
  • Zimbabwean Foreign Policy
    BMI examines key trends and shifts in Zimbabwe's foreign relations and alignments with regional neighbours, the United States and Europe, focusing on external influences.

Key Benefits

  • Benchmark Zimbabwe's risk profile against its neighbours, the global and regional average, allowing easy comparison of risks between key business markets.
  • Identify, evaluate and anticipate political and security risks to the business environment in Zimbabwe, and to your company's current operations and future plans.
  • Gain valuable insights into the Zimbabwean government and policy-making, through BMI's specialist team of analysts and economists, and their exclusive network of private and public sector sources.

Zimbabwe's Economic Outlook:

How will Zimbabwean economic policy-making and performance impact on corporate profitability over 2009-2014?

BMI provides our fully independent 5-year forecasts for Zimbabwe through end-2014 for more than 35 macroeconomic variables. We evaluate Zimbabwean growth, and also forecast the impact of economic management, including central bank policy, on profitability.

Zimbabwe Economic Outlook Contents

The Zimbabwe Business Forecast Report features explicit BMI economic forecasts for country, with supporting commentary and analysis, for end-2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 set against Zimbabwean government views. Underpinning our Zimbabwe forecasts are key assumptions for the global economy through end-2014, covering growth, inflation, employment, trade and investment, interest and exchange rates in the US, Japan and the Euro-zone.

Coverage of Key Economic Issues in Zimbabwe

  • Economic Activity in Zimbabwe
    Real GDP growth; industrial growth; employment growth; inflation and consumer prices; consumption (indicative wages, retail sales, consumer confidence)
  • Fiscal Policy in Zimbabwe
    Current macroeconomic strategy and implementation policies; government finance (revenue, expenditure, budget balance); tax reforms
  • Monetary Policy in Zimbabwe
    Interest rate trends (bank lending and deposit rates); inflation (retail price inflation, consumer price inflation); exchange rate policy in country; currency controls; influence of foreign direct investment inflows; exchange rates and foreign exchange reserves
  • Balance of Payments in Zimbabwe
    Merchandise trade (exports, imports, trade balance); current and capital account balances
  • Foreign Direct Investment in Zimbabwe
    Foreign direct investment approvals and inflows; the foreign investment climate
  • Zimbabwean External Debt
    Debt profile (short- and long-term debt; public and private sector exposure)

Key Benefits

  • Rely upon BMI's 100% independent Forecast Scenarios for Zimbabwe and underlying assumptions - we take no advertising and are privately-owned.
  • Exploit the benefits of BMI's comprehensive and reliable macroeconomic database on Zimbabwe, sourced and fully maintained by BMI from an extensive network of private sector, government and multilateral contacts.
  • Gain key insights into the current and future direction of Zimbabwean government economic policy

Zimbabwe's Business Environment:

Zimbabwe's Business Environment Risk Rating with SWOT Analysis

Short- and long-term business environment risk ratings for Zimbabwe, benchmarked against ratings for regional neighbours.

Country Competitiveness for Zimbabwe
Competitiveness of Zimbabwe's business operating environment in supporting corporate growth and profitability over the 5-year forecast horizon, compared with regional neighbours.

Zimbabwe Business Environment Contents

  • Zimbabwe's Domestic Environment.
    Transparency, cronyism and corruption; labour market flexibility; corporate tax burden; interest rate levels; access of private sector to lines of credit; sophistication of banking sector and stock market; levels of business confidence; infrastructure and IT
  • Foreign Direct Investment in Zimbabwe
    Analysis of foreign investment regime, foreign ownership laws; attractiveness of business environment to foreign investors; review of major foreign direct investments over the last 24 months, and of strategic sectors attracting most interest
  • Foreign Trade with Zimbabwe
    Analysis of trading environment, government trade policy, liberalisation measures, tariffs and membership of trade areas

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