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In late 2016, the government introduced ‘bond notes’, a kind of bearer cheque designed to address a chronic shortage of physical US dollars in the country. (Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo)
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Why no one’s buying the new Zimbabwean dollar

Currencies are based on trust, and trust is in short supply

  • Simon Allison
4 min read