Juillet 17, 2020

Communiqué Sixth Meeting of the SADC Macroeconomic Peer Review Panel Held Via Virtual Conferencing

The Peer Review Panel (The Panel) comprising the SADC Ministers responsible for Finance and Investment and the SADC Central Bank Governors, met via Virtual Conferencing on 15 July 2020.

The purpose of the Panel's Virtual Meeting was to review progress made by individual Member States towards the achievement of agreed SADC Macroeconomic Convergence (MEC) targets as well as to identify risks to the Region's economic outlook and devise policy measures to mitigate the risks. In this regard, the Panel also considered a report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Member States' performance against MEC targets.