According to CZI: “Eliminating subsidies and allowing the exchange rate to converge is the only way to boost production and optimise the use of scarce foreign exchange in this time of crisis. With the magnitude of the crisis we are facing we simply cannot afford wasteful subsidies.
The government may also consider reducing the excise duty on fuel in view of declining oil prices on the international market. This can also act as a stimulus measure for the productive sector considering that when operations resume they will face working capital challenges.”
Informal traders should be allowed to order goods from formal industries and use carts to distribute them directly to customers in residential areas.
“This will have the potential of shifting the informal markets to the residential areas and may contribute to decongesting the city centres during the COVID-19 long haul”.
“In that regard we recommend that government aggressively pursue two avenues: International support from the donor community; issuing of Treasury bills at attractive rates of interest to raise funding from existing RTGS balances.”-NewZwire
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