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Hello and welcome to more or less. I'm Ben Carter.

Last week Zimbabwe's finance minister Patrick Chinasa, delivered his budget for 2015.

His speech gave a fascinating insight into the state of Zimbabwe's economy and the challenge

the country faces going forward.

It also contains some rather worrying statistics.

In 2014, the government of Zimbabwe managed to find $18 million to spend on medical equipment

for all hospitals in the entire country,

which is a population of 12 million.

Meanwhile, it also found 16.7 million dollars

to spend on maintaining Mugabe's official residences.

More from David Blair, the chief foreign correspondent at the Daily Telegraph, later.

But first, let's take a look at some of the headline numbers in the budget.

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