{"id":250458,"date":"2026-11-15T08:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T06:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-economy-to-grow-5-percent-in-2028-after-el-nino-induced-slowdown-mthuli-ncube-says\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T08:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T06:30:18","slug":"zimbabwe-economy-to-grow-5-percent-in-2028-after-el-nino-induced-slowdown-mthuli-ncube-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-economy-to-grow-5-percent-in-2028-after-el-nino-induced-slowdown-mthuli-ncube-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Economy to Grow 5 Percent in 2028 After El Ni\u00f1o-Induced Slowdown, Mthuli Ncube Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s economic growth is forecast to recover to 5 percent in 2028 and average above that level through 2030, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Ncube made the remarks in the ministry&#8217;s Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies, contained in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newzimbabwe.com\/zimbabwe-making-strong-progress-under-imf-programme-representative\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IMF&#8217;<\/a>s staff report on the second review of the 10-month Staff-Monitored Program on Zimbabwe, published late Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s medium-term economic prospects remain favorable, with economic growth expected to rebound to 5 percent in 2028&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611130090.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 economic growth is forecast to recover to 5 percent in 2028 and average above that level through 2030, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has said. Ncube made the remarks in the ministry&#8217;s Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies, contained in the IMF&#8217;s staff report on the second review of the 10-month Staff-Monitored Program on 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":[],"class_list":["post-250458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250458","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=250458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250458\/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=250458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}