As state violence in Zimbabwe worsens, economists in the capital Harare have warned that cutting international economic ties with the country will hit the average person the hardest...Moves by...international companies are part of the latest measures...to put a squeeze on President Robert Mugabe...Giesecke & Devrient’s decision [to stop supplying the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe with special paper used to print Zimbabwe's bearer cheques] will affect the procurement of much-needed food, fuel and other essential imports, John Robertson, a Harare-based economist, told IPS. ‘‘As usual, it is the consumers, not the political culprits, who will bear the brunt,’’ he said...Despite the latest turn of events, several British companies are still doing business in Zimbabwe...[T]hese include Standard Chartered, Barclays Bank, British American Tobacco (BAT), British Petroleum (BP), Rio Tinto, Falcon Gold. [Also refers to Coca Cola, Cheveron, Anglo American, Impala Platinum, Metallon Gold, Standard Bank, Old Mutual, PPC cement, Murray & Roberts, Truworths, Edcon, Hulett-Tongaat, Spar, Makro, SAB Miller, Delta Beverages, Shell]