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...under Wen, with farmers' incomes stagnating while China's economy grows at 8% a year. Even when Wen could possibly have mitigated the mistakes of his boss, he chose to keep characteristically taciturn. According to a Chinese professor who discussed with him Zhu's decision to create a state grain monopoly in 1998, Wen "had feelings against the policy but didn't dare speak up." After the government wasted $12 billion supporting its monopoly for two years, Zhu finally authorized Wen to reintroduce markets...
...Because of the way the light falls on it, the texture creates a grain of light and dark,” says Cooper. Although the collection itself has remained largely the same throughout its tour, Cooper meticulously planned the lighting, design and installation in the Sert Gallery...
...such devastating results are predictable under these policies. In the first decade of Communism, Russia reversed from being the world’s largest grain exporter to the largest importer. Output plunged such that 7 million Russians starved while another 10 million were narrowly saved by Western donations. Similar mass starvation followed socialized “land reforms” in Eastern Europe, China and post-colonial Africa...
...other hand, India abandoned agricultural price controls during their famine in the early 1970s. By 1977, it became self-sufficient and even a grain exporter. After post-Mao China recognized more economic rights in 1977, food production increased at 12 percent per year, persisting in growth despite poor weather in 1980. After a devastating 1983 famine, African nations forsaking “social rights” policies for private ownership saw an immediate food production surge, including Zaire, Zambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Madagascar and others...
...province, its rural heartland. Last year, 61% of Matabeleland North voters chose Tsvangirai over Mugabe for President. Suffrage isn't supposed to bring suffering, but the people are still paying for their votes. "A family will walk 60 km to get maize meal at the [regime-run] Grain Marketing Board," says an aid worker. "They'll be told to come back the next day. When they do, it has all been given to people." Which explains the oft-told joke: ZANU-PF has no supporters, only beneficiaries...