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  • noun Alternative spelling of dollarization.

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Examples

  • But Professor Anthony Hawkins, an economics lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, said that although the dollarisation was a logical move, it will not end the country's woes.

    News24 2009

  • But Professor Anthony Hawkins, an economics lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, said that although the dollarisation was a logical move, it will not end the country's woes.

    News24 2009

  • But Professor Anthony Hawkins, an economics lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, said that although the dollarisation was a logical move, it will not end the country's woes.

    News24 2009

  • The investment will hope to take advantage of the "dollarisation" of the Zimbabwean economy, with the government last year attempting to put the lid on a decade of hyperinflation by dropping the Zimbabwe dollar.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Local economists, commerce and industry officials agree that the unofficial '' dollarisation '' of the Zimbabwean economy has pushed the local currency out of use as legal tender in a country where the World Bank says the economy has shrunk by more than 70 percent since the year 2000.

    IPS Inter Press Service 2009

  • Long before I knew that there was such a thing as 'dollarisation', I wondered why we didn't simply transact all

    WN.com - Articles related to Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey Finds Economic Optimism Highest Since 2003 as Investors Put Cash to Work 2009

  • There are signs of recovery in response to the liberalisation of the economy and the "dollarisation" of the country's currency.

    Institute for War & Peace Reporting: 2009

  • With the increasing "dollarisation" of the Zimbabwean economy, the Zimbabwe dollar, which is used to pay government workers, is virtually unacceptable as legal tender.

    Institute for War & Peace Reporting: 2009

  • Local economists, commerce and industry officials agree that the unofficial '' dollarisation '' of the Zimbabwean economy has pushed the local currency out of use as legal tender in a country where the World Bank says the economy has shrunk by more than 70 percent since the year 2000.

    IPS Inter Press Service 2009

  • '' dollarisation '' of the economy - and even to what some, who have still maintained some sense of tragicomedy, call the '' petrolisation '' of the economy because of the re-emergence of barter trade.

    Signs of the Times 2009

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