Sub-Saharan Africa's economic growth forecast has been revised downwards to 3% for 2024, primarily due to the devastating impact of Sudan's civil war on the region's economy. This represents a 0.4% d

The World Bank’s recent report, Accelerating Access to Clean Air on a Liveable Planet, released on March 27, 2025, presents an ambitious yet attainable goal: halving the number of people exposed to d

Zimbabwe is pursuing $2.6 billion in bridge financing to clear $6.7 billion in arrears, a critical component of its $21 billion public debt, equivalent to 96.6% of its 2023 GDP (World Bank, 2024). Fi

The World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospects report has painted a sobering picture of the global economy, projecting global growth to decelerate to 2.3% in 2025, the slowest pace since the 2008 f

The World Bank's June 2026 Global Economic Prospects report has placed Zimbabwe's 2026 GDP growth at 4.6%, a downward revision from the 5% projected in its January 2026 edition, with a further easing

Zimbabwe's Food Poverty Line for one person stood at ZWG 921.72 in June 2026, the amount ZimStat calculates as necessary to afford the daily minimum energy intake of 2,100 calories on its confirmed co

Zimbabwe’s debt resolution programme has reached the point where its credibility will be judged by two payments moving in opposite directions across the same public balance sheet. Treasury needs about

The World Bank has flagged Zimbabwe’s failure to convert strong economic growth into productive employment, with about 80% of working Zimbabweans now operating in the informal sector where median mont

Zimbabwe’s five-year economic expansion is entering a harder phase, with household and government consumption projected to contribute 4.4 percentage points of the country’s 5% economic growth in 2026

Zimbabwe is carrying an electricity constraint estimated by the World Bank at 6.1% of GDP annually, placing power among the largest structural costs still embedded in an economy targeting industrial e

Zimbabwe’s human-capital problem is increasingly becoming an allocation problem, as the  country has a relatively educated workforce, yet the formal private sector remains too small to absorb the peop

Zimbabwe’s private-sector credit stock is equivalent to only 6.5% of GDP, according to the World Bank’s Zimbabwe Country Growth and Jobs Report, compared with approximately 22% in Côte d’Ivoire, 32%

Zimbabwe intends to seek a sovereign credit rating as its re-engagement programme advances. * Public and publicly guaranteed debt stood at an estimated US$22.8 billion at the end of 2025. * A rating w

Zimbabwe’s higher-value service industries lost momentum in the second quarter of 2026, with financial and insurance activities contracting 3.6% quarter-on-quarter and professional, scientific and tec

Zimbabwe is targeting March 2027 to clear its arrears with international financial institutions, as Government seeks bridge financing to restore access to affordable development funding after more th

The World Bank Group launched its first digital strategy on 20 October, setting out a financing and policy framework for developing countries to expand affordable connectivity, digital services, skill