Zimbabwe inflation tops 24,000 percent, officially

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• Zimbabwe reveals that its annual inflation has climbed to 24,470 percent
  
• Figure is highest in world but short of independent estimates of 150,000 percent
  
• Price of daily national newspaper has gone up 200,000 percent in past year
  
• Cost of chicken rose more than 236,000 percent, eggs by 153,000 percent
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