 This emphasis on redistribution of wealth from whites to blacks was a policy that the government began to directly pursue in the mid-1990s.Zimbabwe's economy has shrunk since 2000, in an atmosphere of political turmoil, capital flight, corruption and mismanagement.Inflation has spiralled out of control (peaking at 500 billion % in 2009) and the underpinnings of the economy in agriculture and industry have been dissipated.