Zimbabwe’s long-term retail and industrial revitalisation will not be secured by trade expansion alone. Durable recovery depends on deepening domestic value creation, transforming raw materials into higher-value consumer and industrial goods through integrated production ecosystems. In development economics, retail strength is not an isolated phenomenon; it is the downstream reflection of industrial depth, productivity, and income stability. By Brighton Musonza For decades, much of Zimbabwe’s economic debate has revolved around liquidity constraints, exchange-rate pressures, and demand weakness. Yet beneath these cyclical stresses lies a more structural challenge: insufficient value addition across...