Africa: The Sub-Prime Crisis - Why Continent Remained Detached? (AllAfrica.com)

Story date: 2008-02-15 06:41:04
Added on: 2008-02-15 06:50:45

WHILE the Zimbabwean financial sector experienced difficulties initially through severe cash shortages in 2007 and later through a banking sector wide liquidity crunch in January 2008, global financial markets were in turmoil from the contagion effect of the US sub-prime market crisis.


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