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Annual inflation in Zimbabwe hit 55.3% in March 2024. [8] The ZiG is notionally divided into 100 cents, which were first used by the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange before the currency had an ISO code. Cents were officially recognized by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe when a currency code for the Zimbabwe Gold was introduced in June 2024. [9]
The Zimbabwean dollar (sign: Z$; code: ZWL), [5] also known as the Zimdollar or Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) dollar, [6] [7] was the currency of Zimbabwe from February 2019 to April 2024. It was the only legally permitted currency for trade in Zimbabwe from June 2019 to March 2020, after which foreign currencies were legalised again. [8]
In the final months before Zimbabwe's central bank reforms of 30 April 2008, virtually all popular currency conversion resources relied upon the official rate of 30,000 ZWD to US$1 for published figures, in spite of the vast differences between that and free market rates.
currency union Central bank interest rate (%) Change Effective date of last change Average inflation rate 2017–2021 (%) by WB and IMF [1] [2] as in the List Central bank interest rate minus average inflation rate (2017–2021) Afghanistan: 6.00 3.00: 24 July 2021 [3] 3.38 2.62 Albania: 2.75 0.25: 6 November 2024 [4] 1.78 0.97 Algeria: 3.00 0. ...
The Old Mutual Implied rate was a widely adopted benchmark rate for unofficial currency exchange until intervention by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in May 2008 prohibited the transfer out of the country of shares in Old Mutual, ABC and Kingdom Meikles Africa, thereby blocking their fungibility.
The local currency which Central African Currency Board was mandated to supply to Southern Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe), Northern Rhodesia (colonial Zambia) and Nyasaland (colonial Malawi) had been established through the Southern Rhodesia Coinage and Currency Act of 1932. The Reserve Bank of Rhodesia (which became the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe ...
This completed the conversion of all US Dollar denominated bank balances to a devalued Zimbabwean currency at a rate of 1:1. In June 2019 the use of foreign currencies in local transactions was prohibited as part of the prospective plan for a new national currency [101] and thus ended the dollarization period. There was still low volume trade ...
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe issued most of the banknotes and other types of currency notes in its history, including the bearer cheques and special agro-cheques ("agro" being short for agricultural) that circulated between 15 September 2003 and 31 December 2008: the Standard Chartered Bank also issued their own emergency cheques from 2003 to 2004.