Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s cash-starved government prints new banknotes
Reserve Bank starts printing higher denominated notes ‘to meet required cash demands’
20 October 2019 - 19:17
Zimbabwe’s cash-strapped government has started printing new banknotes to ease cash shortages that have seen the few notes in circulation being traded at a premium on the parallel market.
Economists, however, warn that the printing of cash might further fuel hyperinflation that is now the second highest in the world after Venezuela.
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