By wiping the slate clean, creditors may reward past misrule and provide the resources for future misgovernment.
Mr Mbeki's new frustration could signal that other African leaders are about to respond to Mr Mugabe's misrule.
When Patrick Lyons arrived in America he was fleeing famine compounded by centuries of oppression and misrule.
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Jaimy Gordon won the fiction award for Lord of Misrule, about a horseman's scheme to rescue his failing stable.
On other issues Mr Ivanishvili has been full of spleen about misrule, but hazy about what he would do differently.
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If misrule matters so much for development, should it reserve its money for committed reformers, turning its back on the reform-shy?
It won't be easy despite what critics call a record of misrule by the remote Mayawati, an icon for India's Dalits.
Such misrule means Zimbabwe will remain isolated, without investment, aid or loans.
Even Mr Mugabe's own former secretary, Charles Utete, has produced an (unpublished) audit of the land reform programme that shows corruption and misrule.
This claim makes increasingly little sense to the three-quarters of Algerians who are under 30, many of them suffering from decades of economic misrule.
If Western nations do so, they stand an excellent chance of ending the misrule of the Mussolini-like Butcher of Belgrade, Slobodan Milosevic, and creating conditions essential for peace in the Balkans.
That, at any rate, is the belief of several senior figures in Serbia's ramshackle coalition government, which is struggling to repair the damage done by more than ten years of misrule.
From Middlesbrough to Torbay on the Devon coast and urban Hackney (once a byword for misrule, with anarchy in the council chamber and rubbish rotting in the streets), elected mayors have done well.
One reason is the tragedy of it: Zimbabwe has fallen much further than most African countries, and in a fashion of misrule that many in Africa, especially its leaders, had claimed was over.
The states that have seen the most cases of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu are Indonesia, Vietnam, China and Egypt, none of them among the worst cases of misrule or non-rule.
There was no more loyal follower of Papa de Gaulle, but after 14 years of barbaric misrule Bokassa was replaced by Mr Dacko, flown back to Bangui with an escort of 700 French paratroopers.
Shreve, who's the author of 13 novels, has written an engrossing, somewhat offbeat memoir called Warm Springs, about the period, between ages 11 and 13, that she spent at the famous sanitarium, where she seems to have been the reigning mistress of misrule.
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