The Finance Ministry plans to amend the FY2016-17 budget to account for additional expenditures incurred as a result of the EGP float last November, Deputy Finance Minister Mohamed Maait tells Al Borsa. State census bureau CAPMAS issued the new amended figures for the first quarter, putting Egypt’s GDP EGP 841.6 bn at the current exchange rate.
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