The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted that the local economy would swell by 5.1 percent next year. The prediction is 1.9 percentage points shy of the 7 percent Finance Minister Joseph Mwanamvekha predicted in the 2019/20 national budget. In its latest World Economic Outlook for October released during the IMF/World Bank annual meetings in … Continue reading IMF predicts weaker growth next year