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Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service. Now, loyal listener Marvin

Mutangara, who comes from Zimbabwe, recently emailed us with this question.

Can sanctions on a few select individuals create an economic crisis for an entire nation?

The reason I ask this question is that I have heard from various members of our government in Zimbabwe

that if those sanctions on these few select individuals are dropped,

that our economy will recover and not be as bad as it is now.

So we decided to look into this.

Marvin seems correct that politicians are blaming things on sanctions.

Here's the country's president and leader of the ruling party, Zanu P.F. Emerson Manangagwa.

Zimbabwe has these sanctions now for nearly two decades.

And as a result of those sanctions, our economy was collapsed.

Our currents collapsed.

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