Zimbabwe targets 7% growth

Economic Planning Minister Tapiwa Mashakada today unveiled a $9.2 billion four-year economic plan under which he says the country must attain a 7 percent economic growth a year, a 6 percent annual employment creation and should revive its sinking parastatals like Air Zimbabwe, National Railways of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority. “It cannot be business as usual,” he said. “We need to recover the lost decade.”

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