Description: ‘Life is expensive’: Zimbabwe’s economic woes in spotlight as country heads to polls, Zimbabwe: How NOT To Run an Economy, Value of Zimbabwe’s Currency Keeps Plunging Despite Rescue Attempts, The Worst Economy to Ever Exist: Zimbabwe
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The economy of Zimbabwe shrank significantly after 2000, resulting in a desperate situation for the country – widespread poverty and an 80% unemployment rate. However, after 2008, Zimbabwe's economy started to improve dramatically and it became one of the fastest-growing economies in southern Africa. Between 2009 and 2011, Zimbabwe's GDP growth averaged 7.3 percent, making it one of the world's fastest-growing economies. Zimbabwe's participation from 1998 to 2002 in the war in the Democratic Republic of the
The country has reserves of metallurgical-grade chromite . Other commercial mineral deposits include coal , asbestos , copper , nickel , gold , platinum and iron ore .
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