Zimbabwe Business Lobby Group Calls for Argentina-Style Reforms

Zimbabwe’s main business lobby group urged the government to implement a raft of measures to reduce firms’ operating costs, and said Argentina’s reform program could serve as a template.

Zimbabwe “requires bold and accelerated reforms, including systematic deregulation inspired by Argentine’s President Javier Milei’s one deregulation per-day model,” the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries said in a letter to the Industry and Commerce Ministry. “Maybe in Zimbabwe, it could be one deregulation” measure a week, it said.

Decades of government mismanagement and policy missteps have taken a heavy toll on Zimbabwe — poverty and unemployment are widespread, basic ...