In this inaugural issue of the Zimbabwe Journal of Economics (ZJE), a distant successor to the Rhodesian Journal of Economics (RJE) which started publishing in August 1967 and had its last issue in January 1988, the focus is on poverty in Zimbabwe. The word ‘poverty’ is commonly used, but there seems to be confusion about its meaning, the causes and how to measure the phenomenon. This introductory paper sets out to define poverty and traces the possible causes of poverty using a historical lens, highlights the main poverty measures, and concludes by profiling the poverty levels in Zimbabwe.
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