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Article: Counting the cost; Zimbabwe and Africa.(What Zimbabwe costs Africa)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2003
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Are the Brothers M still holding hands?
The price of Zimbabwe's collapse for the rest of Africa
WHEN Zimbabwe's despotic president, Robert Mugabe, finally leaves office, a shattered country will have to be rebuilt. His economy is the world's fastest-collapsing; its GDP has shrunk for four years in a row. Donors say they will be ready again to offer help once there is change. But what of the damage Zimbabwe has caused in the rest of the region?
Recently in Johannesburg, Don McKinnon, secretary-general of the Commonwealth, called attention to just that. Most obvious is the exodus: once 14.5m-strong, Zimbabwe now has nearer 11m people. "South ...