IMF Executive Board approves expanded US$8 billion loan to Egypt

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday completed the first and second reviews of the extended arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for Egypt and approved an augmentation of the original program by about five billion dollars, allowing the authorities to draw the equivalent of…

IMF approves Egypt’s additional $5bn funding, $820m to be disbursed  

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a significant boost to its financial support for Egypt, acknowledging the country’s complex economic situation. The Executive Board completed the first and second reviews of Egypt’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement and greenlit an augmentation of the program by $5bn (SDR 3.76bn) raising the…