Masress : Egypt's overall budget deficit rose to EGP133bn during 4 months ending last October

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Egypt's overall budget deficit rose to EGP133bn during 4 months ending last October
State's overall budget deficit down to 2.5% of GDP during period from July to October 2018

Nihal Samir Published in Daily News Egypt on 19 - 12 - 2018

The Egyptian Ministry of Finance showed in its latest report that Egypt's overall budget deficit increased by 9% year-over-year (y-o-y) during a four months period that ended last October, elaborating that it recorded EGP 132.9bn during the period from July to October, up from EGP 121.4bn during the same period last fiscal year (FY).
Notably, the Egyptian FY begins on 1 July and ends on 30 June of the following year.
On the other hand, the ministry stated that the overall budget deficit ratio of the gross domestic product (GDP) declined to 2.5% during the period from July to October 2018, down from 2.7% in the comparative period of the previous FY.
The Minister of Finance Mohamed Moait stated earlier that the overall budget deficit fell to 1.9% in the first quarter of the current FY, down from 2% during the same period of the last FY.
Meanwhile, Egypt aims to reduce the overall annual deficit to 8.4% in FY 2018-2019, down from 9.8% in the last year.
Earlier this month, Egyptian Planning Minister Hala Al-Saeed said the country's economy grew about 5.3%
y-o-y in the first quarter of the FY 2018/19
Egypt began a three-year International Monetary Fund $12bn loan program in late 2016, agreeing to tough reforms, including a significant cut in energy subsidies, as well as new taxes and the liberalisation of the exchange rate, in an effort to repatriate the country's investors after the 2011 uprising.
Moreover, in 2017, the Former Minister of Finance Amr El Garhy declared that the government aimed at reducing the budget deficit annually by 1-1.5% to reach 4-5% in 2022.
El Garhy previously declared, "Reducing the deficit and the public debt will save more resources to invest and raise the private sector's growth rates," as he stressed the importance of reducing the budget deficit.
In this context, Moait said that Egypt aims to reduce the overall deficit to less than 5% of the GDP, and to lower the public debt to less than 70% of the GDP.

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