{"id":196696,"date":"2025-04-24T18:06:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T16:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-experts-disagree-as-imf-downgrades-nigerias-2025-gdp-forecast\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T18:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T16:06:39","slug":"nigeria-experts-disagree-as-imf-downgrades-nigerias-2025-gdp-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-experts-disagree-as-imf-downgrades-nigerias-2025-gdp-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Experts Disagree As IMF Downgrades Nigeria&#8217;s 2025 GDP Forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Experts have disagreed to the recent downgrade of the Nigeria&#8217;s Gross Domestic Outlook from 3.2 per cent to 3 per cent in 2025 by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The projection is a downgrade from the IMF&#8217;s estimate of 3.2 percent announced in October 2024, according to the Fund&#8217;s World Economic Outlook (WEO) report presented at the ongoing spring meetings on Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The Bretton Woods organisation also expects Nigeria&#8217;s economic growth to further slowdown at 2.7 percent in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504240436.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts have disagreed to the recent downgrade of the Nigeria&#8217;s Gross Domestic Outlook from 3.2 per cent to 3 per cent in 2025 by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The projection is a downgrade from the IMF&#8217;s estimate of 3.2 percent announced in October 2024, according to the Fund&#8217;s World Economic Outlook (WEO) report presented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,10490,13135,5060,11604,13289,1283,257,4687,393,5761,254],"class_list":["post-196696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-disagree","tag-downgrades","tag-experts","tag-forecast","tag-gdp","tag-imf","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}