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Zimbabwe Regime Launches Brazen Food-for-Votes Stunt
(Why aren't you reading this at the new website?)

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A chicken in every hovel?
The Zimbabwean government unveiled plans on Tuesday to open a network of state-run "people's shops" that will offer basic goods at rock bottom prices in the run-up to elections in March.

But economists warned that the scheme would do nothing to improve the country's economic crisis and might even make it worse in the long term.
How reassuring that modern Western democracies don't do that sort of thing. Right?

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Posted by Kip on 29 January 2008


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KipEsquire

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KipEsquire is a lawyer who doesn't practice, an investment banker who does no deals, an academic who doesn't teach, and a policy wonk who belongs to no think tank. He's 41 and lives in NYC.

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