In the early 1990s, food prices in Zimbabwe skyrocketed when government agricultural programs adversely affected the nation’s farms. The economy never recovered, and by the 2000s, the nation began to print mass quantities of currency to pay the salaries of its policemen and soldiers. However, by late 2007 that stopgap measure became unsustainable, and the government froze wages for six months.
The chronic printing of money came to an end in July 2008, when the nation ran out of paper on which to print its currency. In November 2008, the money had become so worthless that when the Reserve Bank capped personal withdrawals at $500,000, they were worth a grand total of 25 cents in U.S. currency.
After Japan was defeated and World War II ended, the Chinese Civil War began, and the Chinese economy experienced hyperinflation. This affected Taiwan as well, and the nation was forced to introduce the New Taiwan Dollar in 1949 to replace the one that had become devalued. At the time of its introduction, the New Taiwan Dollar was worth 40,000 units of the old one.
发表于 2011-4-9 10:04
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