WITHOUT international financial support, Zimbabwe faces a "resource gap" which will prevent the country from achieving meaningful economic development, economists told a meeting of top executives of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in Zimbabwe. Dr Phineas Kadenge, an economist at the University of Zimbabwe, said that by embarking on an economic development programme in which the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank and their member countries have stopped providing financial support, Zimbabwe was unlikely to achieve economic growth and development.