Between 2009 and 2011, Zimbabwe's GDP growth averaged an impressive 7.3 percent, making it one of the world's fastest …-growing countries. Yet World Bank governance indicators place Zimbabwe's government among the world's worst, and the Fraser Institute …'s Economic Freedom of the World index ranks it as one of the world's least economically free countries. Zimbabwe's performance …

, with many setbacks on the way. The other is Zimbabwe, which ceased being a colony in 1965 but achieved proper independence … only in 1980.Following independence, Zimbabwe's economic performance in an increasingly globalized world was, like that of … Ireland at first, hesitant and disappointing, even before its catastrophic decline in the past decade.Zimbabwe – now reckoned …