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'Very possible' Egypt will ask for bigger IMF loan: Minister
Egypt might seek to increase its previously-requested $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to cover its soaring budget deficit, the planning minister said
Reuters Published in Ahram Online on 10 - 04 - 2013

Egypt seeks Egypt might ask the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to increase a previously requested $4.8 billion loan to cover its budget deficit, the country's planning minister said on Wednesday.
"It's very possible that we will increase the request but so far we are talking about $4.8 billion," Ashraf El-Araby told reporters during a visit to Qatar led by Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil.
Qatar has provided Egypt with $5 billion in loans and grants since Islamist President Mohamed Mursi was elected last year and diplomats said Cairo was seeking further support from the Gulf Arab state as it faces a long, hot summer of power cuts and fuel shortages with or without the loan.
A IMF delegation has been in Egypt since last week for long-delayed talks to ease the North African country's deepening eeconomic crisis.
Cairo must convince the IMF that it is serious about reforms aimed at boosting growth and curbing an unaffordable budget deficit.
El-Araby also said the government had targeted a budget deficit of 9.5 percent of gross domestic product in the fiscal year ending in June.
Meanwhile, Egypt's urban consumer inflation eased to 7.6 percent in the past 12 months to March, from 8.2 percent in the 12 months to February, Egypt's statistics agency CAPMAS said on Wednesday.

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