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Suffering in Zimbabwe decreases

This could be straight out of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front book now that Jonathan Moyo is back as chief government spokesman. But it comes from international polling agency, Gallup.

According to its report on suffering in the world released yesterday, suffering in Zimbabwe has decreased by 38 percentage points over the past four years.

It declined from 44 percent from 2006 -2008 to 5 percent last year. The average for 2010-2012 was 6 percent.

Suffering worldwide is reported to have increased by 3 percentage points.

South Asia is the worst hit with an average increase of 10 percentage points while sub-Saharan Africa reduced suffering by an average of 4 percentage points.

Zimbabwe led the pack among the countries where suffering decreased.

It was followed by Burkina Faso with a decrease of 14 percentage points, Uganda by 13, and Zambia, Cameroon and Paraguay all by 10 percentage points.

Zimbabwe has been receiving very flattering reports of late with one saying it has the highest economic growth potential on the continent.

But the burning question is, what do the figures mean to the average Zimbabwean because most people in the country would argue that things are getting worse?

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Charles Rukuni

The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.

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