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Egypt's Revolution has cost the country, up to September, US$9.79 billion, according to a report issued by consultancy group Geopolicity. Titled "The cost of the Arab spring & Roadmap for G20/UN support", the report shows results of a costing exercise undertaken by Geopolicity, based on data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It accounts for the impact of productivity losses on GDP and public finance, but excludes losses to human life, infrastructure damage and business and foreign direct investment losses. The near 10 billion dollars shed by Egypt are divided among the $4.27 billion cost to GDP and $5.52 billion in lost public finances.

Egypt's government expects to seal a loan from the International Monetary Fund by 15 May, allowing the money to be disbursed before a new president is sworn in at the end of June, Finance Minister Momtaz al-Saeed said on Thursday. "We expect to get approval of the IMF loan before 15 May," Saeed told reporters in Cairo.

Finance Minister Hazem El-Beblawi says Qatar transferred $500 million last week as a grant to Egypt for budgetary support

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SCAF has not raised Egypt's foreign debt ceiling, so far: Official The IMF may yet ink a $3 billion loan deal with Egypt despite disagreements between the country's military and finance and planning ministries over foreign borrowing, an insider tells Ahram Online Salma Hussein, Thursday 27 Oct 2011 The current visit of an IMF delegation to Cairo could end up yielding a loan agreement, a finance ministry official has told Ahram Online on condition of anonymity.

Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:59am EDT * Minister confident loan will be sealed next month * Muslim Brotherhood won't accept loan without new terms or govt, due in June * IMF had made broad political support a condition CAIRO, April 12 (Reuters) - Egypt's government expects to seal a loan from the International Monetary Fund by May 15, allowing the money to be disbursed before a new president is sworn in at the end of June, the country's Finance Minister Mumtaz al-Saeed said on Thursday.

"the Bank tends to threaten rather than improve food security " Breaking Up? A Route Out of the Eurozone Crisis 13 January In late June, the Egyptian Ministry of Finance turned down a $3 billion loan package from the IMF, citing the rejection as a response to "public debate".

Reports revealed new details in the on-going investigation of government privatizing and selling public-sector companies for less than their predetermined prices. These reports, compiled by the Public Funds Prosecution and the Administrative Supervisory Authority, suggest that Gamal Mubarak, son of deposed President Hosni Mubarak, Atef Ebeid, the former Prime Minister, and nine former ministers, wasted some LE7 billion in privatizing 11of 19 public-sector companies.

A glance at Egypt's public finances reveals a disturbing fact: the interest that the country pays on its foreign loans is larger than its budget for education, healthcare, and housing combined. Indeed, these debt-service costs alone account for 22 percent of the Egyptian government's total expenditures.

The EBRD, an international lending institution which has focused on emerging European economies, announced last week that shareholder governments had backed the expansion of its mandate to North Africa. The bank is one of the tools the international community will use to supply aid to Arab governments and encourage them to pursue democratic reforms in the wake of this year's Arab Spring political unrest.

Egypt has a budget deficit of nearly 10 percent of GDP and the finance minister recently said that the country is on the brink of a liquidity crisis. Meanwhile, economic growth has slowed since the uprising, decreasing government revenues, while public sector workers around the country are striking to raise wages that have been stagnant for decades.