zimbabwe uses the currencies of several other countries. the government uses the united states dollar. the economy is currently in a bad situation. foreign currency reserves are at very low levels, and the zimbabwean dollar has become very devalued. just recently, three zeroes were taken off the zimbabwean dollar (for example, $1,000,000 (one million dollars) would become $1000 (one thousand dollars)). many observers link this to mugabe's controversial land reform programme.