Egypt’s annual urban inflation eased to 14.9% in April from 15.2% in March, defying analyst forecasts of a rise to 15.9%. The slowdown came despite currency weakness, higher electricity costs, and ...

Egypt's annual urban consumer inflation rate slowed unexpectedly to 14.9% in April from 15.2% in March, figures from statistics agency CAPMAS showed on Wednesday.

Egypt is targeting total investments of EGP 3.7 trillion in the FY2026/2027, which starts on 1 July, with the private sector expected to contribute EGP 2.2 trillion, or 59 percent of the total, ...

The government is intensifying its focus on entrepreneurship by supporting start-ups and fostering a more enabling business ...

Central banks in late 2021 kicked off the steepest and most coordinated series of interest rate hikes in four decades to contain the postpandemic inflation outbreak (see Chart 1). Many economists ...