{"id":242279,"date":"2026-08-26T20:29:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwes-economy-turning-around-faster-than-expected-citi\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T20:29:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:29:37","slug":"zimbabwes-economy-turning-around-faster-than-expected-citi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwes-economy-turning-around-faster-than-expected-citi\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe&#8217;s Economy Turning Around Faster Than Expected &#8211; Citi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s economy could be recovering faster than many investors realise, with global banking giant Citigroup pointing to signs of a potentially significant economic turnaround after years of instability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">In a recent assessment, Citi said Zimbabwe was breaking with its history of high inflation, currency instability and monetary financing, although the country&#8217;s troubled economic reputation could still discourage investors from recognising the changes underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">&#8220;Where perceptions and reality may&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608260356.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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&#8217;s economy could be recovering faster than many investors realise, with global banking giant Citigroup pointing to signs of a potentially significant economic turnaround after years of instability. In a recent assessment, Citi said Zimbabwe was breaking with its history of high inflation, currency instability and monetary financing, although the country&#8217;s troubled economic reputation could [&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":[258,256,11092,5762,6474,12299,257,254,15335,421,7726],"class_list":["post-242279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-citi","tag-economy","tag-expected","tag-faster","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turning","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242279","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=242279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242279\/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=242279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}