{"id":556997,"date":"2021-09-02T04:02:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T04:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2021\/09\/02\/we-smashed-growth-expectations-in-4q2020-2021\/"},"modified":"2021-09-02T04:02:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T04:02:46","slug":"we-smashed-growth-expectations-in-4q2020-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2021\/09\/02\/we-smashed-growth-expectations-in-4q2020-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"We smashed growth expectations in 4Q2020-2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"content-anchor\" id=\"tldr-story-01\"><\/a> <strong>Egypt\u2019s economy grew at a 7.7% clip in 4Q2020-2021, accelerating from a <\/strong><strong>contraction of <\/strong><strong>1.7% during the final quarter of the previous fiscal year<\/strong> \u2014 and up from <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/dc06799e-2096-4852-a2f5-98a47b8417d0\">the<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/dc06799e-2096-4852-a2f5-98a47b8417d0\">2.9% growth recorded<\/a> in 3Q2020-2021 quarter, Planning Minister Hala El Said said during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EgyptianCabinet\/posts\/214639487373146\">a Cabinet meeting<\/a> yesterday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/egypts-efg-hermes-sovereign-fund-to-buy-76-arab-investment-bank-2021-05-19\/\">Reuters<\/a> also has the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The figure significantly exceeds the government\u2019s quarterly target:<\/strong> The Planning Ministry had penciled in a 5.2-5.5% growth rate for the quarter, which wrapped up on 31 June. Growth in the sectors most affected by covid-19 \u2014 including hospitality, restaurants, construction, natural gas, and electricity \u2014 drove the rebound, the minister said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preliminary indicators put our growth for the 2020-2021 (the state\u2019s last fiscal year)<\/strong> <strong>at <\/strong><strong>3.3%<\/strong>, a drop from <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/422458d6-8b81-411d-856a-d45787d8866e\">the 3.6% recorded<\/a> in FY2019-2020 and the 5.6% growth recorded in FY2018-2019, thanks to the covid-19 induced economic slowdown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But q-o-q growth is looking strong: <\/strong>Egypt has seen steady gains in its quarterly growth figures, from 0.7% in 1Q2020-2021, to 2% and 2.9% in the second and third quarters respectively, the minister said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Growth during the first half of the fiscal year clocked in at 1.35%<\/strong>, a significant y-o-y drop from the pre-covid 5.6% growth rate recorded in 1H2019-2020, the minister <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/99c37ce8-a356-4bc1-a235-68278c8f7ed9\">previously said<\/a>. Logistics, agriculture, education and healthcare led the rebound throughout the fiscal year, and are expected to continue to do so further into FY2021-2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The outlook for the state\u2019s current fiscal year looks pretty good: <\/strong>The Finance Ministry expects the Egyptian economy will return to near pre-pandemic growth levels in FY2021-2022, expanding at <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/6f10ef3d-eec0-4f11-a112-c1dee1ee9780\">a 5.4% clip<\/a>. Revised forecasts from <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/83398725-78cf-440c-ae45-be20ca82835e\">the IMF<\/a> put growth for the current 2021-2022 fiscal year at 5.7%, just slightly lower than the 5.8% pre-covid target the government was hoping to achieve <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/b76f4e40-96de-4115-9c51-34c2a8378c0d\">in FY2019-2020<\/a>. The<a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/3fd136c3-bbdd-4838-8e29-2717a1ff5eea\">African Development Bank<\/a> sang a similarly upbeat tune, expecting GDP growth of 4.9% in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt\u2019s economy grew at a 7.7% clip in 4Q2020-2021, accelerating from a contraction of 1.7% during the final quarter of the previous fiscal year \u2014 and up from the2.9% growth recorded in 3Q2020-2021 quarter, Planning Minister Hala El Said said during a Cabinet meeting yesterday. Reuters also has the story. 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On a quarterly basis, external debt increased 4.3% from USD 129.2 bn in the second quarter.Blame lower\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2021\/7\/169.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556997\/revisions"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue\/556993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556997"},{"taxonomy":"brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand?post=556997"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=556997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}