29 March 2008

Zimbabweans vote, desparate for change

Here's an interesting NY Times article about Zimbabwe's latest presidential elections. I'm not as familiar with the situation in the country as I am in some others, but the column does have some interesting interpretations of the country's unfortunate economic state. Here's one example: “Zimbabwe suffers an inflation rate of more than 100,000 percent, a condition of fiscal entropy so chaotic that a standard calculator has an insufficient number of zeros to figure out a grocery bill. People carry heavy bricks of cash encircled by thick rubber bands. A soft drink costs 30 million Zimbabwean dollars, a chicken 200 million, a tank of gas 1.8 billion.”

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