{"id":197668,"date":"2025-05-08T12:02:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T10:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-economist-warns-swapo-plan-risks-corruption-empty-promises\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T10:02:35","slug":"namibia-economist-warns-swapo-plan-risks-corruption-empty-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-economist-warns-swapo-plan-risks-corruption-empty-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Economist Warns Swapo Plan Risks Corruption, Empty Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em>Economist Robin Sherbourne has raised red flags about the N$85.7-billion Swapo Manifesto Implementation Plan.He says it could be used to drive corruption to benefit individuals connected to the ruling party.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Sherbourne said this in a quarterly economic review report of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), which was released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The report examined some of the main commitments contained in the 66-page Swapo implementation strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The implementation plan is touted by president&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505080109.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist Robin Sherbourne has raised red flags about the N$85.7-billion Swapo Manifesto Implementation Plan.He says it could be used to drive corruption to benefit individuals connected to the ruling party. Sherbourne said this in a quarterly economic review report of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), which was released on Monday. The report examined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":197669,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,4723,13833,13181,4706,724,257,7586,9343,7349,254,1664,6853],"class_list":["post-197668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-corruption","tag-economist","tag-empty","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-plan","tag-promises","tag-risks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swapo","tag-warns"],"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\/197668","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}