Die 10 schwächsten Volkswirtschaften der Welt

[Candymaker]

1. Zimbabwe

GDP per capita: $375
Inflation rate: 5%

At the height of its inflationary fever in 2008, the price of a loaf of bread soared from 200,000 Zimbabwean dollars to 1.6 trillion. Dictator Robert Mugabe's policies of seizing productive grain farms and handing them to his political cronies has turned the nation from one of Africa's biggest food exporters into an economic basket case, reliant on foreign aid to feed its people. A power-sharing arrangement between Mugabe and rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has led to some reforms and inflation has cooled since the government began settling transactions in U.S. dollars.
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2. Democratic Republic of Congo

GDP per capita: $172
Inflation rate: 51%

Inflation spiked past 50% last year as this commodity-rich nation's central bank extended too much credit to troubled banks and it struggled to pay $13 billion in external debt. Debt service now accounts for 25% of government revenue and 150% of exports. A $3 billion mining deal with China might help trim the DRC's massive current account deficit but the government needs to fix a dilapidated infrastructure and high levels of malnutrition.
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3. Guinea

GDP per capita: $414
Inflation rate: 8%

This West African nation sits on 30% of the world's known bauxite reserves but has trouble attracting productive investment. Poorly maintained roads, military coups and constant government meddling in private business have slowed investments like a $5 billion Guinea Alumina project with Abu Dhabi and BHP Billiton. Says the U.S. State Department: "Many companies already operating in Guinea have slowed exploration efforts considerably in fear that falling prices and government intervention could precipitate massive investment losses."
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4. Sierra Leone

GDP per capita: $310
Inflation rate: 11%

Rich in diamonds, titanium and other commodities, Sierra Leone might finally be getting its act together. The IMF projects 4.7% GDP growth in 2010 and a 2008 anticorruption act has led to the removal of at least 13 government officials, including the vice president's chief of staff. But with exports of just $205 million last year, Sierra Leone struggles with a current account deficit of almost 9%.
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5. Nicaragua

GDP per capita: $971
Inflation rate: 1%

The government of socialist President Daniel Ortega might be popular with leftists elsewhere in South America, but it isn't delivering the goods at home. The second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere after Haiti, Nicaragua actively discourages foreign investment and its citizens suffer from blackouts, water shortages and high energy costs that disproportionately hurt the poor.
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6. Burundi

GDP per capita: $163
Inflation rate: 8.5%

This war-ravaged Central African nation needs $5.8 billion in telecommunications, energy and transportation investments over the next 20 years to raise its economy to sub-Saharan standards, according to the African Development Bank. With the government spending 12% of GDP on its own employees, it's hard to see where the money's going to come from. Last year Burundi exported $44 million in coffee, leaving a $207 million trade deficit.
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7. Eritrea

GDP per capita: $363
Inflation: 30%

Since gaining independence from Ethiopia, this East African nation has struggled to build an economy. Extensive meddling by the ruling Peoples Front for Democracy and Justice doesn't help. The U.S. State Department. cites an "arbitrary and complex set of regulatory requirements" that discourage domestic and foreign investment.
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8. Liberia

GDP per capita: $234
Inflation rate: 10%

Once the site of some of the world's most vicious civil warfare, Liberia has been relatively peaceful since 2005. But the West African nation established by freed slaves in 1847 is swamped by $3.4 billion in war debt and 85% unemployment. Some economic growth is expected after Arcelor Mittal begins shipping iron ore from the Yekapi complex in 2011.
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9. Ghana

GDP per capita: $671
Inflation rate: 16%

Bauxite, the world's largest manmade lake, a 1-gigawatt hydroelectric plant and now offshore oil. Ghana's got it all, except a functioning economy. Persistent electricity shortages have sidelined the massive Valco aluminum smelter and the government of Ghana must privatize several money-losing state-owned enterprises to reduce its budget deficits, which run close to 10% of GDP. Oil revenues are expected to flow next year from offshore fields, being developed by Anadarko Petroleum and others. Perhaps the government will use the money to stabilize its finances instead of launching another spending binge.
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10. Madagascar

GDP per capita: $412
Inflation rate: 8%

A March 2009 military coup has stalled economic recovery plans in this island nation, with the European Union and U.S. refusing to aid the government of Andry Rajoelina. Exports of vanilla, coffee, cloves and industrial minerals can't overcome a stubborn trade imbalance, which led to a 17% current-account deficit in 2009. Poverty remains high in the interior regions.
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[politisch Verfolgter]

Es geht ja um Vermögenszugang.
Wie sehen denn bitte die deutschen Eink./Verm.-Verteilungskurven aus?
An denen hat man sich zu orientieren.
Was schwachen Volkswirtschaften auf die Beine hilft, habe ich schon laufend dargestellt.
Je besser wir hier in D zu Reichtum kommen, desto umfassender kann das globalisieren.

[Gryphus]

Ich dachte immer Madagaskar wäre gar nicht so übel. Exportieren die nicht den Großteil der Vanille weltweit oder so?

[politisch Verfolgter]

Wo sonst noch liegt man mit 10 T€ Monatsbrutto bei %Rang 90?
Das ist in D so.
Wie ist das auf Madagaskar?

[Schwarzer Rabe]

Diese TOPP10 sind alles Negerländer. Wie das nur kommt bei den fleißigen und schlauen Menschen?

[jak_22]

Diese TOPP10 sind alles Negerländer. Wie das nur kommt bei den fleißigen und schlauen Menschen?

Das ist bestimmt nur die Schuld der Kolonialherren, und ganz besonders
der Deutschen. Ich hab zwar noch keine Ahnung, wie, aber irgend jemand
wird das mit Sicherheit argumentieren.

Ich schreib schonmal das Gegenargument hin: Rhodesien.

Danke, Thema durch.

[politisch Verfolgter]

In D gehts ja wenigstens um Villa&Porsche.
Kleine Leute streiten das hier aber vehement ab.
Das mag woanders auch so sein.
Je effizienter wir in D Marktwirtschaft realisieren, desto wirkungsvoller überträgt sich das auf andere Volkswirtschaften.
Sich dazu immer an den 3 % Begütertsten orientieren, die sogar leistungslose Einkommen haben.
Da gibt es kleine Leute, die es gerne Anderen erwirtschaften.
So läuft das auch in schwachen Volkswirtschaften.
Die sind dann die kleinen Wirtschaften des bürgerlichen Lagers der Industrienationen.
Kleine Leute orientieren sich gerne an kleinen Leuten anderer Länder, die noch schlechter da stehen.
Das ist schlecht, weil sich damit die kleinen Leute untereinander affirmativ selbst diskriminieren.

[Wolf]

Menschen sollten generell nicht auf Madagaskar leben. Wenn das so weiter geht, dann wird es dort 2030 kaum noch Waldflächen geben. Aber nein. Erst einmal alles niederbrennen.

[Candymaker]

Diese TOPP10 sind alles Negerländer. Wie das nur kommt bei den fleißigen und schlauen Menschen?

Außer Nicaragua, die sind Mesticio-Latinos, also Mischlinge aus Spaniern (Weißen) und Indianern.

[Lobo]

Diese TOPP10 sind alles Negerländer. Wie das nur kommt bei den fleißigen und schlauen Menschen?

Vor lauter Lebensfreude vergessen die halt gelegentlich zu arbeiten. In manchen Ländern freuen sich die kleinen Negerlein sogar so, daß sie vergessen Nahrung aufzunehmen, daher auch die vielen Hungertoten.