{"id":223401,"date":"2026-02-10T12:23:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-imf-backs-zimbabwe-reform-push-with-new-staff-monitored-programme\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:23:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:23:55","slug":"zimbabwe-imf-backs-zimbabwe-reform-push-with-new-staff-monitored-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-imf-backs-zimbabwe-reform-push-with-new-staff-monitored-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: IMF Backs Zimbabwe Reform Push With New Staff-Monitored Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Zimbabwe and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have reached a staff-level agreement on a new Staff-Monitored Programme (SMP), a step the authorities say could help entrench economic stability and support the country&#8217;s efforts to re-engage with international lenders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The 10-month programme is designed to strengthen fiscal discipline, tighten monetary management and improve governance as Zimbabwe seeks to build a credible reform record that could pave the way for debt restructuring and the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602100038.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have reached a staff-level agreement on a new Staff-Monitored Programme (SMP), a step the authorities say could help entrench economic stability and support the country&#8217;s efforts to re-engage with international lenders. The 10-month programme is designed to strengthen fiscal discipline, tighten monetary management and improve governance as Zimbabwe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,7102,1283,257,7715,6354,6099,254,53623,4686,421],"class_list":["post-223401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backs","tag-imf","tag-news","tag-programme","tag-push","tag-reform","tag-south-africa-today","tag-staffmonitored","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223401","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=223401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}