Zimbabwe to switch to managed float exchange rate in latest move

March 11, 2020 – Zimbabwe, Africa - Zimbabwe will adopt a "managed float" exchange rate regime, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said on Wednesday, abandoning strict control of foreign exchange by the central bank in the latest in a series of currency reforms that have so far failed. The country, which has seen bouts of hyperinflation since the 2008, has taken steps to ease its heavy reliance on the U.S. dollar, part of a raft of economic reforms by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who replaced longtime leader Robert Mugabe after an army coup in 2017.
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