Multinationals and foreign investment in Zimbabwe: A development and human rights perspective

Abstract

Zimbabwe, up to 2009, was frequently described as the fastest shrinking economy outside a war zone. Its decline has been discussed and debated in detail, and solutions sought for its problems by other countries, mostly western, for nearly a decade. The country’s economic decline was driven by a government bent on political survival, buoyed by the support of regional governments; yet the innovative people of Zimbabwe devised ways to survive the state’s tortuous economic policies.