{"id":211875,"date":"2025-10-30T08:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-imf-calls-for-economic-reform\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T08:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:29:06","slug":"lesotho-imf-calls-for-economic-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-imf-calls-for-economic-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: IMF Calls for Economic Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><em>&#8230;urges shift from public sector dependency to private sector-led growth<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><strong>T<\/strong>HE government must urgently overhaul Lesotho&#8217;s economic model to unlock private sector-led job creation to end chronic unemployment and poverty, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">According to the IMF&#8217;s <em>Selected Issues Paper No. 2025\/141<\/em> released this week, Lesotho&#8217;s long-standing reliance on public spending to drive growth has failed to deliver sustainable employment or rising living standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510160053.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;urges shift from public sector dependency to private sector-led growth THE government must urgently overhaul Lesotho&#8217;s economic model to unlock private sector-led job creation to end chronic unemployment and poverty, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. According to the IMF&#8217;s Selected Issues Paper No. 2025\/141 released this week, Lesotho&#8217;s long-standing reliance on public spending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":211876,"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":[1406],"tags":[258,256,6137,3576,1283,4717,1407,257,6099,254],"class_list":["post-211875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-economic","tag-imf","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-reform","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\/211875","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=211875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}