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Zimbabwe: from riches to rags: twenty-eight years of authoritarian misrule by Robert Mugabe has turned an African breadbasket into a basket case.

Publication: New York Times Upfront
Publication Date: 03-NOV-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Zimbabwe: from riches to rags: twenty-eight years of authoritarian misrule by Robert Mugabe has turned an African breadbasket into a basket case.(INTERNATIONAL)

Article Excerpt
Every morning, Rose Moyo, 29, and her husband wake up at 2:20 a.m. and trek to the bank, joining hundreds of other Zimbabweans waiting in line to withdraw the maximum amount of currency the government will allow per day--the equivalent of only one or two American dollars.

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Zimbabwe is in the grip of one of the great hyperinflations in world history. Its once proud people have been reduced to peddlers and paupers, hawkers and black-market hustlers....

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