Zambia faces a painful period of post-election austerity

Zambia’s disputed election has raised the risk of a period of political uncertainty, but with the vote out of the way, we think that it’s now likely that the government will agree to a long-delayed IMF bailout. An IMF-imposed fiscal squeeze means that consensus expectations for growth to rebound to around 5% next year will prove wide of the mark.

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