Zimbabwe’s economy could shrink by 13% in 2020
World Food Programme names the country among global hunger hotspots
07 January 2020 - 20:33
Zimbabwe’s economy is likely to shrink by 13% in 2020, the Economist Intelligence Unit (https://www.eiu.com/n/) (EIU) has predicted, as the southern African country faces a third consecutive year of drought.
Agriculture is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s economy but poor rains in the past two years as well as forecasts of another drought in 2020 have left the country with little hope of economic revival this year...
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