Monday, January 2, 2012

Would Zimbabwe's economy be in such dire straits if all sectors had been managed well except farming?

By the time Zimbabwe launched its chaotic reform policy it's economy was already losing a lot of foreign direct investment had become very uncompetitive and inflation stood at 35%. Corruption was costing the country millions at this stage. Of course this is a hypothetical question but does anyone think that if the country had been run well since 1980 then its chaotic seizure of white farms in 2000 would not have devastated the economy to such a mive extent. I'm saying would the economy have been able to withstand the violent land seizures if it had progressed sustainably since 1980? Would the farm seizures have been irrelevant to the economy as a whole?

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