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Zimbabwe: a pre-election overview and recovery scenarios |
| Author |
Games, Dianna; South African Institute for International Affairs |
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PDF |
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Johannesburg: SAIIA |
| Year |
2005-03-11 |
| Pages |
45 |
| Abstract |
Zimbabwe, a country which has experienced a drop in GDP of more than 30% in the past three years, has been classified by the UN as having the fastest shrinking economy in the world. It has also gone from being a country that boasted one of the most successful economies on the continent to one stalked by famine. It is now ranked 90th on the list of the world’s 94 poorest countries. Only one person in 10 still has a formal sector job, half the figure of 1980. The current problems stem from bad governance and a breakdown of law and order. Getting rid of Mugabe and/or a change in the overall leadership of the country are necessary but not sufficient conditions for economic and political recovery. Even optimistic growth projections for a post-Mugabe Zimbabwe suggest that it will take 15-20 years to regain the living standards of the mid-1990s because of the breakdown of the country’s economic backbone – agriculture.
www.saiia.org.za |
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Zimbabwe_recovery_scenarios_March2005.pdf (616 Kb) |
| Country |
Zimbabwe |
| Themes |
- Economy
- Elections
- Political parties
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