IMF places Egypt among top 30 countries with strong economic performance

WASHINGTON - 24 June 2020: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has placed Egypt among the top 30 countries, whose economies constitute 83 percent of the Gross World Product (GWP).

In its World Economic Outlook for June, the fund expected Egypt and China to achieve a positive growth in 2020 despite economic challenges posed by the novel coronavirus pandemic.

"The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity in the first half of 2020 than anticipated, and the recovery is projected to be more gradual than previously forecast," the report read.

"In 2021 global growth is projected at 5.4 percent. Overall, this would leave 2021 GDP some 6½ percentage points lower than in the pre-COVID-19 projections of January 2020," it added.

The fund added that the adverse impact on low-income households is particularly acute, imperiling the significant progress made in reducing extreme poverty in the world since the 1990s.