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Zimbabwe Starts Circulating Gold-Back Notes
Zimbabwe’s central bank started circulating ZiG notes and coins among the public, a day after policymakers kept interest rates unchanged at their first meeting since unveiling the new currency.
The ZiG, short for Zimbabwe Gold, is the southern African nation’s sixth attempt since 2008 to deliver a stable domestic currency. It was announced on April 5 and transacting in the unit has been done electronically since trade started three days later.
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Zimbabwe’s as new currency starts circulating – Hurriyet Daily News (5/1/24)
Zimbabwe‘s new gold-backed currency started circulating on April 30 amid government hopes it could help stabilize the economy, but many locals complained banknotes and coins were too hard to obtain.
The so-called ZiG, or Zimbabwe Gold, replaced the Zimbabwean dollar, whose value against its U.S. counterpart had collapsed over the past year, pushing up inflation.
The new currency officially started trading earlier this month, but the central bank only released the first two denominations, a 10 ZiG note ($0.70) and a 5 ZiG coin, on April 30.
Despite hopes this would solve a shortage of small change, Zimbabweans were left disappointed.
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“Where is the ZiG? Why are we still being given things we don’t need for change?” a disgruntled shopper said after being given a bar of chocolate instead of coins at a supermarket in an upmarket suburb in the capital Harare.
Many Zimbabweans have long preferred using U.S. dollars for transactions.
But due to a lack of coins, stores often give change in candies and cookies.
“We haven’t had a customer who brought it in cash today,” said a shop assistant at another retailer.
Professor Gift Mugano, director for African Governance and Development at the Durban University of Technology, said the central bank released small denominations first to “curb money supply and inflation.”
But some stores were marketing goods at inflated prices in the local currency compared to the official U.S. dollar exchange rate.
Soaring prices have piled pressure on Zimbabweans who are already contending with widespread poverty, high unemployment and a severe drought induced by the El Nino weather pattern.
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After climbing well into the triple digits last year, inflation was at 57 percent in April.
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/zimbabwes-as-new-currency-starts-circulating-193032
Source: Dinar Recaps
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