‘Elections high jinks will doom economy

ANY moves by the governmentvto abandon fiscal prudence and appease its employees and voters ahead of this year’s national elections will spell doom for the Zimbabwe dollar and the economy.

So warns business after it was claimed last week that the government was mulling awarding hefty salary increases of upvto 400 percent to some of its workers, which experts said would only precipitate a fresh inflationary spiral in the country.