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Why not prostitute yourself for cash?
Ok, let's not get dragged down that path. I also don't support prostitution for cash. I was just using your analogy.

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I believe China is investing there though - infrastructure for natural resources, and the agenda is fairly open, they do not bother talking about democracy, human rights etc.
Ok, so you're saying China is not like the bunch of G8 gang of pimps, but rather a respectful married man who 'supports' a young beautiful black girl. Sometimes it's cash, sometimes it's diamonds, sometimes a casual voyage to a resort. Is that ok for a decent woman?

But let's assume another way around, this time without any loans. Why not to outsource only, say, 50% of the resources and with that cash start exploiting the other half themselves? This time it would only be the escourt service, no sex involved. Why is that not happening?

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Because it is suffering in general from the legacy of colonialism
That explanation was good some time back, but I don't think that is adequate anymore. Zimbabwe is not a colony for some good 30 years. The US was a buch of colonies once and the economic situation some 30 years after they won their independence wasn't nearly as bad. And Canada is still a colony.

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because the leadership is incompetent
I respectfully disagree. I think they are rather competent in what they are doing having in mind that Mugabe is in power for so long. I think the prosperity of Zimbabwe is not in their agenda, that's all. Why would they be interested in that? How would that benefit Zimbabwe government?

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and it lost some of the foreign aid and support it used to receive in the past.
Hey, you said earlier it wasn't the foreign aid but rather the 'economic hit', right? That's not fair to use the same thing twice for the opposite purposes.

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It also doesn't have enough educated people
How much education you really need to start digging out gold? It's no rocket science.

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and there is corruption throughout the country.
Now, you're talking. We have an agreement here. Yay! So, if our opposite point of views have something in common, that is probably the only objectively true thing, agree?

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But why not ask yourself this instead Croc; with all the rhetoric against a perfectly decent country like Belarus, and others like Syria, Iran etc.... Why is there no interest in Zimbabwe?
If you thought I'm going to evade your question, then SURPRIZE!! I think there's no interest in 'democratic' Zimbabwe (and other African countries for that matter) mainly because it's going to be way way worse than in Vietnam. It took so much effort to get out of there, that NATO would not even contemplate going back there. Iraq was supposed to be a piece of cake: it was already solidified under the central government, it had a strong opposition, and was previously run by just one of the ethnic minorities (no just ethnic representation). Look how hard it is to get out. There's lots of experience with Africa, it's just not working. The last and best attempt was done in South Africa. That was supposed to be a total success: a country with previous democratic (although apartheid) tradition, relatively educated population (the best in Africa), the capitalist economy, the history of long-lasting international support for the cause of black majority, and so on. In other words, just plug-and-play! So, what's now? The highest crime rate in the world, bad economics, serious brain drain, poverty, the highest documented child rape statistics (Rape Statistics - South Africa & Worldwide 2010). It's just not working in Africa (yet) and it's not worth to try. Very sad.