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Egypt’s Permanent Representative in Geneva, Ambassador Alaa Hegazy was elected on Tuesday, Vice-President of the Trade and Development Board of UNCTAD for the term 2025–2026.
He said that preliminary data for early 2025 suggests the investment climate remains fragile, with record-low project announcements in the first four months of the year.
“Global investment is not just slowing, it’s pulling away from development,” she warned.
“This report is being released at a time of rising uncertainty, even more than when it was drafted,” Al-Mashat said during her speech at the launch of the UNCTAD World Investment Report 2025 in Cairo.
Al-Mashat’s remarks during the global launch of the UNCTAD World Investment Report 2025, held in Cairo.
Kouchouk called for a more flexible global framework for innovative financing to provide significant financial resources under easier terms for emerging economies.
FDI outflows from Egypt saw a 14 percent increase year-on-year, totaling $390 million in 2023, as per the report
Egypt has solidified its position as an attractive investment destination in Africa and the Arab world.
Egypt has topped African countries regarding services exports in 2021 by around $20 billion, said a report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in December.
GAFI's winning project is the Canal Sugar Company.
The minister, meanwhile, said that Egypt plans to increase its exports to Africa from $5 billion annually to $15 billion within the upcoming four years.
Although the free trade part entails removing tariffs, that is not all.
Reports showed Egypt is one of the countries that are outside this trap due to the government’s keenness on expanding manufacturing activities
The foreign direct investments in Egypt were estimated at $5.9 billion in 2020, the UNCTAD said in its World Investment Report 2021 report on Monday.
The report speculates that the world can possibly experience a "lost decade."
The report noted that the economic reforms undertaken by the Egyptian government have improved macroeconomic stability and boosted investor confidence in the country.
Madbouli’s speech came during his meeting with Director of UNCTAD's Investment Division James Zhan.
“Egypt remained the largest FDI recipient in Africa in 2018, although inflows decreased by 8 percent to $6.8 billion,” UNCTAD stated in a report.
A recent study by UNCTAD reviews the benefits and challenges of the Continental Free Trade Area, the pan-African trade liberalization agreement.
