David Blair
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first heard Dec 2014
last heard Dec 2014
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In 2014, the government of Zimbabwe managed to find $18 million to spend on medical equipment for all hospitals in the entire country, which is a population of 12 million.
Meanwhile, it also found $16.7 million to spend on maintaining Mugabe's official residences.
In some countries, public spending is designed in some way to benefit the public.
In Zimbabwe, public spending is designed really to benefit only one member of the public, and that's President Robert Mugabe.
So to give you an example, in the course of 2014, the governor of Zimbabwe spent $824,000 maintaining the president's cars.
Over the same period, it spent $180,000 on capital spending for all secondary schools in the entire country.
And bear in mind, there are about 6 million school-aged children in Zimbabwe.
And that sort of misallocation of resources runs through the whole thing.
So, for example, Robert Mugabe's foreign travel spending 2014, $21.6 million.
TB drugs for the entire country?
$500,000.
If you add up the amount spent on travel, cars and residences for Mugabe, it comes to 1.1% of all public spending in the entire country.
If you look at capital spending on schools, it's 0.01%.
So that's a discrepancy of a factor of 100.
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