Hijjah, 1431/Nov 25, 2010, SPA -- Zimbabwe is expecting economic growth to power ahead to 9.3 per cent in 2011, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said Thursday, unveiling the 2011 budget. The southern African country is recovering from an economic meltdown in 2008. Gross domestic product is predicted to come in at 8.1 per cent this year, compared with 5.7 per cent in 2009, dpa quoted Biti as saying. Inflation, which ran into the billions of per cent at one point during the economic crisis, is expected to finish the year at 4.8 per cent. Zimbabwe's economic turnaround kicked in after President Robert Mugabe agreed to share power with then opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in 2008. Tsvangirai is now prime minister in a power-sharing government.
