- "Economic growth decelerated from 10.6% in 2011 to 4.4% in 2012, reflecting a fragile recovery owing largely to inherent political and economic uncertainties, a high debt overhang and the deteriorating infrastructure." - Trading Economics
- "Key challenging factors to doing business include policy instability, lack of funding, corruption, excessive or poorly functioning government bureaucracy and inadequate infrastructure." - Trading Economics
- Zimbabwe's economy is highly dependent upon natural resources and vulnerable to environmental conditions. Additionally, scarcity is becoming an issue as population increases and the natural resources are competed more for.
- Zimbabwe’s low GDP rates per capita are indicative of a struggling economy, one where little economic growth is occurring. What is even more worrisome is the indications that Zimbabwe’s development is just as stagnant. The low GDP results from a poor governmental system, that is corrupt, useless, and mismanaged. It is this fact, that is more troublesome than little economic growth. Economic development is dependent upon a government to aid human rights, living standards, and education. With a poor governmental system, economic development has many barriers to overcome. If economic development is suspended, the infrastructure of a country will not be improved, and economic growth is also heavily blocked. The two are inter-dependent and the lack of one results in problems for the other. Zimbabwe's HDI rising rates could indicate that economic development could be aided, as the citizens become more educated, they will be more capable of higher paying jobs and economic growth could be boosted as a result. However, with Zimbabwe's shaky infrastructure and poor governmental control, access to these jobs will likely be limited. Zimbabwe has a lot of limitations to overcome to improve economic development, and even economic growth.