{"id":8006,"date":"2020-02-11T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8006"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:51","slug":"economists-downplay-locust-invasion-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/11\/economists-downplay-locust-invasion-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Economists Downplay Locust Invasion Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Constant Munda<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Economists have played down the invasion of farmlands by desert locusts, saying it poses minimal impact on growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The economy may miss its 2020 growth, projected by the National Treasury at 6.1 percent, by a negligible 0.2 percent in the worst case scenario, London-headquartered Capital Economics say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf output in the already affected 14 counties falls by the 3.5 percent (maximum observed in previous outbreaks in Madagascar, Mauritania and Mali) this would cut 0.2 percentage points off headline GDP growth,\u201d Vir\u00e1g F\u00f3rizs, the firm\u2019s economist for Africa and Middle East, wrote in a Friday note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd if adjacent counties also suffer a similar fall in agricultural output, the total economic cost would double to 0.4 percentage points of GDP. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/business\/Economists-downplay-locust-invasion-impact\/996-5450000-15t5glk\/index.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Constant Munda Economists have played down the invasion of farmlands by desert locusts, saying it poses minimal impact on growth. The economy may miss its 2020 growth, projected by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[509,869,898,962],"class_list":["post-8006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-east-africa","tag-invasion","tag-kenya","tag-locusts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}