Zimbabwe's Crackdown on Electric Tricycles Hurts the Women It Promised to Help

Zimbabwe's Crackdown on Electric Tricycles Hurts the Women It Promised to Help

Zimbabwe is imposing steep fees to license electric tricycles, vehicles three hundred rural women use to earn income. The costs exceed what these women make in a month. The government says it wants to help women build businesses, yet its enforcement rules treat these tricycles like big commercial trucks—not the affordable transportation gap-fillers they are.

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