This commentary explores how the financial clout of the IMF in the context of Egypt’s fiscal needs might generate a narrow pathway for bringing incremental reforms about that improve governance and remain feasible within the country’s authoritarian parameters of rule.

From the minute I stepped outside Cairo International Airport heading to downtown Cairo to the moment I left the country, I was inundated with cynical political commentary on Egypt’s economic crisis and the deteriorated pound.

Egypt has joined the list of countries that aspire to become BRICS members, Russian Ambassador in Egypt Georgiy Borisenko told Sputnik.

Egypt has agreed three bailouts with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, in office since 2014. It is currently the second biggest borrower from the IMF after Argentina.

After more than half a year in the making, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi finally approved at the end of December a strategic program drawn up by the government that sets out the economic sectors from which the state plans to withdraw in the coming years, and those in which …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a Staff Report on January 10, 2023, detailing the commitments made by the Egyptian government in return for the award of about $3 billion in new lending, Egypt’s fourth loan since 2016. Although the initial agreement was announced on October 27, 2022, it has …

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has vowed to reduce the military’s undue influence over the country’s economy as part of a new $3 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout. The package of measures that will be introduced will address Cairo’s economic woes including a foreign currency crisis, a weakening pound …

A new IMF report offers a glimpse into what is expected of the Arab world’s most populous country as it copes with a foreign currency crunch and spiraling inflation.

Space photography from Nasa and the European Space Agency reveals Egypt in all its glory

The World Bank’s executive board has approved $500 million in development financing for Egypt to expand its social safety net and protection programme in the face of global economic pressures filtering through to the country’s economy, the international cooperation minister said on Friday.