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Danika


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To fight the effects of hyperinflation Zimbabwe is releasing a $1 million bill. Zimbabwe is in a terrible state of affairs with an official inflation rate of 230 million percent per year. This new bill is worth 8 U.S. dollars and analysts say the inflation rate is actually in the billions. Meanwhile, the capital city of Harare is home to a cholera outbreak that the government can't afford to fight. 10 have died in the past week.

What can be done, on our part, for Zimbabwe? What should the government be doing to help?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/03/zimbabwe.money/index.html

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we could send them money using donations, start a fundraiser for them.

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It seems like all of the UN should step in to fight the cholera outbreak. But I'm not sure how this inflation can be fixed.

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i really dont think the best possible solutions is for us to send them money
especially in our given status


perhaps some aid from the UN could send a group of people to go and establish some sense of stability

like a specialized task force of government reformers
they need to fix their foundations in the government before they try to change anything

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we are in no place for helping more countries we are far too deep in debt as it is. its time for other well established and wealthy countries to stand up

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sadness...confusion...IDEA! use the UN to aid them

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yeah i agree that other countries get involved but if they don't do we just turn our backs? i think we can cut funding from something else and maybe put some of the money into donating to these helpless countries. Especially when we pull out of iraqu we will be able to spend less on the military and put more into these countries.

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