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Zimbabwe Health Care, Paid With Peanuts

 
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:07 pm    Post subject: Zimbabwe Health Care, Paid With Peanuts Reply with quote
Zimbabwe Health Care, Paid With Peanuts
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/world/africa/19zimbabwe.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

The hospital, along with countless Zimbabweans, turned to barter in earnest in 2008 when inflation peaked at what the International Monetary Fund estimates was an astonishing 500 billion percent, wiping out life savings, making even trillion-dollar notes worthless and propelling the health and education systems into a vertiginous collapse.
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