{"id":199046,"date":"2025-05-29T06:31:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T04:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-imf-raises-egypts-growth-forecast-to-3-8-percent\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T06:31:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T04:31:41","slug":"egypt-imf-raises-egypts-growth-forecast-to-3-8-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-imf-raises-egypts-growth-forecast-to-3-8-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: IMF Raises Egypt&#8217;s Growth Forecast to 3.8 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised Egypt&#8217;s economic growth forecast for fiscal year 2024\/25 to 3.8 per cent, reflecting stronger-than-expected performance in the first half of the year and a surge in private sector activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The revised outlook follows the conclusion of an IMF staff mission to Cairo, held from May 6 to 18, as part of the Fifth Review under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><strong>Private Sector Investments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">According to mission chief Ivanna Vladkova Hollar, &#8220;Egypt has made&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505280384.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised Egypt&#8217;s economic growth forecast for fiscal year 2024\/25 to 3.8 per cent, reflecting stronger-than-expected performance in the first half of the year and a surge in private sector activity. The revised outlook follows the conclusion of an IMF staff mission to Cairo, held from May 6 to 18, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":199047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,4697,415,6989,11604,6641,1283,257,6720,5234,254],"class_list":["post-199046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egypts","tag-growth","tag-imf","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-raises","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}