{"id":209860,"date":"2025-10-15T00:40:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cbl-acknowledges-1-percent-drop-in-growth-rate-expresses-optimism-of-exceeding-2025-projection-amid-boost-in-key-sectors\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T00:40:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:40:48","slug":"liberia-cbl-acknowledges-1-percent-drop-in-growth-rate-expresses-optimism-of-exceeding-2025-projection-amid-boost-in-key-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cbl-acknowledges-1-percent-drop-in-growth-rate-expresses-optimism-of-exceeding-2025-projection-amid-boost-in-key-sectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: CBL Acknowledges 1 Percent Drop in Growth Rate, Expresses Optimism of Exceeding 2025 Projection Amid Boost in Key Sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Monrovia \u2014 The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) has acknowledged a one-percent drop in Liberia&#8217;s economic growth rate, aligning with recent projections from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). However, the Bank remains optimistic that the nation&#8217;s economy will surpass the IMF&#8217;s revised growth target for 2025, buoyed by strong performance in key productive sectors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The IMF had recently downgraded Liberia&#8217;s 2025 growth forecast from <strong>5.6 percent to 4.6 percent<\/strong>, citing persistent structural&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510140285.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) has acknowledged a one-percent drop in Liberia&#8217;s economic growth rate, aligning with recent projections from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). However, the Bank remains optimistic that the nation&#8217;s economy will surpass the IMF&#8217;s revised growth target for 2025, buoyed by strong performance in key productive sectors. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":209861,"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":[1086],"tags":[7069,258,256,6557,10022,7431,46844,11664,6641,7274,4712,1107,257,24208,6720,40783,7170,16278,254],"class_list":["post-209860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-acknowledges","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boost","tag-cbl","tag-drop","tag-exceeding","tag-growth","tag-key","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-optimism","tag-percent","tag-projection","tag-rate","tag-sectors","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\/209860","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=209860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}