A framework for financing public economic infrastructure in Zimbabwe

The article develops and recommends a financing decisions framework for economic public infrastructure assets. The study was motivated by the lack of consistency among public entities in the financing decision-making process in Zimbabwe. The financing decision is of peripheral significance in the development of public infrastructure. Qualitative and quantitative methods are synchronously mixed guided the interpretivism philosophy. Primary data was collected through a survey questionnaire and secondary data acquired from the World bank's development indicators website. The authors developed a seven-staged framework for public infrastructure financing based on gaps identified from the reviewed literature. The article, therefore, recommends application of the developed framework to enhance effective and efficient financing decisions for public infrastructure assets.