The 2011 Fiscal budget analysis incorporates; some background perspectives to assist locate the Zimbabwe economic situation within the context of global and regional economic developments.
The global economy is emerging from the global financial crisis of 2007/08. The global economy has changed considerably over the past 3 decades in response to economic reforms implemented virtually across the globe - in East Asia, Latin America, Sub Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, following the fall of Communism.