The news that health care in Zimbabwe can be paid for with peanuts (and sometimes corn and goats) made the front page of the New York Times. This peanut-finance system, which turned the peanuts into food for hospital patients, seems quaint, like tales from 19th century America of rural doctors taking chickens for treating chicken pox.
Peanut- Finance: Swaps as Strategy
The news that health care in Zimbabwe can be paid for with peanuts (and sometimes corn and goats) made the front page of the New York Times. This peanut-finance system, which turned the peanuts into food for hospital patients, seems quaint, like tales from 19th century America of rural doctors taking chickens for treating chicken […]
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