Even if all goes well, it could take more than 12 years for Zimbabwe’s economy to recover peak levels of per capita income reached in 1991, according to a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report seen by the Financial Times.

The report, “Comprehensive Economic Recovery in Zimbabwe”, is due to be published on Friday. Researched and written by five Zimbabwean economists, it is the first economic assessment to be published in the wake of this week’s ­power-sharing agreement between the veteran autocrat Robert Mug­abe and his opposition rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, now prime minister designate