Saturday, May 21, 2011

Egypt economy in deep crisis

The Egyptian Minister of Finance, Samir Sayyad, has recently said that his country?s economy shrank during the first three months of this year by 7% due to slow economic activities following the protests the country has witnessed which led to a significant decline in tourism and investments. The minister said that his country got a promise from the World Bank of a loan worth $ 2.2 billion with an interest rate of 3% paid in 18 years.

Egypt has been trying to obtain funding volume of ten billion dollars from international lenders to cope with the repercussions of the protests that led to the fall of the regime of President Hosni Mubarak
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