ETIQUETTE: It is integral to Egyptian culture to be courteous to foreigners. A conversation, whether business-related or not, is usually accompanied by coffee, tea or juice. Social rules dictate the appropriate way to greet people in business meetings. Close friends of the same sex will sometimes...
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Egypt’s attempts to boost its taxation revenue began to pay off in 2017. In the first quarter of FY 2017/18 total tax revenue expanded to LE88.6bn ($5.8bn), according to the Ministry of Finance (MoF), a significant advance on the LE57bn ($3.8bn) of the same period in the previous year and 1% more than the ministry’s target for income growth....
As Egypt enters 2018, a newly liberalised currency and the recent implementation of a much-anticipated investment framework have left it well positioned for continued economic expansion: the IMF expects the country’s GDP growth to reach 6% over the medium term. However, a structural fiscal deficit, high unemployment levels and socio-economic...
For the past year, discussion surrounding Egypt’s monetary policy has been almost completely dominated by a single criterion: a spiralling inflation rate which is having a deleterious effect on business growth, as well as on the lives of ordinary citizens. After an elevated, but manageable, average inflation rate of just over 10% going back to...
The implementation of Egypt’s new investment law in 2017 was broadly welcomed as an important advance in the country’s bid to make itself more attractive to domestic and foreign capital. However, the six-place decline of Egypt in the World Bank’s “Doing Business Report 2018” is a concern for a government keen to kick-start private sector...
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