Investment sanctions and Zimbabwe: Breaking the rod

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Notes

I am indebted to several people for their help with this paper, the first version of which was written while I was a postgraduate student at the Institute of Development Studies (ids) at the University of Sussex. Paul Jourdan at the Institute of Mining Research, Harare, sent me painstakingly detailed comments which corrected a number of misapprehensions. At the ids, Carlos Fortin was as incisive as ever and prompted a useful reworking of parts of the paper. He recommended I should seek publication of it. I would also like to record my gratitude to Roger Manser and his colleagues at the Commodities Research Unit, London, for giving me access to important statistical and other information; the librarian, Francesca Mellor, was particularly helpful. Any errors or misinterpretations are entirely my own responsibility. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Conference of the Development Studies Association in September 1987 at the University of Manchester.