The FT today had an excellent comment piece on transforming
Zimbabwe entitled
A rescue package for the stricken of Zimbabwe written by Michael Holman, the former Financial Times Africa editor. He writes...
If you lack a stick, then use a carrot. As Zimbabweans prepare for a final heave, their bravery needs to be supplemented by hope: hope that stems from evidence that their future will be marked by a rapid improvement in their wretched circumstances.
And Holman then recommends a package of international and humanitarian commitments in the agricultural, tourism, health, transport, education, wildlife, and other key sectors, all poised for execution and delivery to post-dictatorial Zimbabwe. Holman concludes...
This package of measures would be published and made available to every Zimbabwean, telling them what the future holds. Who better to co-ordinate the programme than the Commonwealth...
An excellent idea and one which could be strategically replicated to bring the
Helping Hand of Prosperity to other troubled zones, including potentially Burma, North Korea, some of the 'stans, and elsewhere in Africa as well.
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