{"id":224607,"date":"2026-02-21T12:52:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-economists-caucus-key-issues-for-national-budget\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:52:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:52:58","slug":"namibia-economists-caucus-key-issues-for-national-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-economists-caucus-key-issues-for-national-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Economists Caucus Key Issues for National Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Economic Association of Namibia (EAN), in partnership with Capricorn Group and the Hanns Seidel Foundation Namibia (HSF), convened a high-level public discussion on the 2026\/2027 National Budget on Tuesday in Windhoek.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The discussion was held under the theme &#8216;The National Budget at a Pivotal Moment: Choices, Trade-offs and Economic Direction&#8217; and was centred on key issues shaping the upcoming budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">High Economic Intelligence&#8217;s (HEI) managing director and EAN associate member Salamo Hei&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602200540.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>The Economic Association of Namibia (EAN), in partnership with Capricorn Group and the Hanns Seidel Foundation Namibia (HSF), convened a high-level public discussion on the 2026\/2027 National Budget on Tuesday in Windhoek. The discussion was held under the theme &#8216;The National Budget at a Pivotal Moment: Choices, Trade-offs and Economic Direction&#8217; and was centred on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224608,"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":[258,256,6080,12541,5756,8008,7274,4706,724,6687,257,254],"class_list":["post-224607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-budget","tag-caucus","tag-economists","tag-issues","tag-key","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-national","tag-news","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\/224607","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=224607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}