There are times that the United Nations seems like an incredibly noble idea that fails miserably due to bureaucracy and sheer foolishness. This is one of those times. From CNN:
Zimbabwe won approval on Friday to head a key U.N. body charged with promoting economic progress and environmental protection despite protests from the U.S., European nations and human rights organizations.[...]
President Robert Mugabe, an 83-year-old who has ruled Zimbabwe since it gained independence from Britain in 1980, has been criticized by the West and domestic opponents for repression, corruption, acute food shortages and gross economic mismanagement that has driven inflation above 2,000 percent — the highest in the world.
If the advocates for economic progress are victims of hyperinflation, I’m inclined to think that stagnation might not be such a bad thing.