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Zimbabwe tackles hyper-inflation

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When Tendai Biti took on the role of Zimbabwe's finance minister as a member of the country's new power-sharing government, he faced the legacy of an inflation rate which at one point hit 500,000,000,000%. Mr Biti explains how he hopes to receive help from the UK government.

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