HARARE (Zimbabwe Investor) - Heated debate is raging whether Zimbabwe’s economy can withstand the pressures associated with the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) signed between the African, Caribbean and Pacific group of states (ACP) and the European Union (EU) countries with the objective of widening the country’s export base as well as to integrate the country’s economy into the global market.

HARARE (Zimbabwe Investor) - Zimbabwe’s turnaround efforts have unnecessarily become more of squeezing water out of a stone as the country appears to be choosing travel through the rough terrain when the smoother highway is available.

LONDON (Zimbabwe Investor) - The World Bank has forecast a 7.1% 2010 Gross Domestic Product growth rate for Zimbabwe in line with the Finance Minister’s own projections of 7% made in his Budget Statement presented in December 2009.

HARARE (Zimbabwe Investor) - The Zimbabwean economy is set to continue on its recovery path of 2009 across all sectors, Kingdom Stockbrokers have said in their 2010 first quarter economic outlook report predicting an improved 7% growth in the Gross Domestic Product from the 4.7% achieved in 2009.

HARARE (Zimbabwe Investor) - It is now to a year since the inclusive government was formed and inevitably a couple of changes have occurred on the economic front.

HARARE (Zimbabwe Investor) - The previous week was abuzz with news reports that the two leading banks had extended their loan tenure periods; a situation that would supposedly pave the way for more banks to release more funds to the productive sector.

HARARE (Zimbabwe Investor) - It is an incontestable verity that Zimbabwe has the second largest platinum reserves after South Africa, has more than half of the world’s known chromium reserves and boasts unexplored deposits of ferrochromium, chrysotile asbestos and diamonds.

HARARE (Zimbabwe Investor) - The tourism industry, one of Zimbabwe’s major economic growth key players, has recorded a three percent increase in tourist arrivals in the first half of the year setting the hospitality industry for a major business boom. For the period leading up to June, arrivals increased by 2.8 percent to 514 541 from 500 743 as compared to the same period last year.