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Egypt: economic update - October

Latest economic news from the Embassy in Cairo.

• From: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
• Published: 9 October 2014

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Egypt: economy update - October

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Egypt’s sees a pickup in economic activity but it has yet to trickle down to unemployment and poverty indicators which are still high at 13.3% and 26% respectively. Gulf funds help stabilise Egypt’s external accounts which saw a $1.5 billion surplus in FY2014.

Published 9 October 2014