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Dailynewsegypt > Blog > Business > Parliament approves Egypt’s largest-ever budget of EGP 1.6tn for FY20
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Parliament approves Egypt’s largest-ever budget of EGP 1.6tn for FY20

Mohamed Samir
Last updated: 2019/06/24 at 7:22 PM
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The Egyptian Parliament approved on Monday the country’s largest-ever budget of EGP 1.6tn for fiscal year (FY) 2019/20. The ambitious budget targets a total gross domestic product (GDP) of EGP 6.163tn ($355.91bn), and a GDP growth of 6%.

The new budget sees an increase of EGP 150bn, compared to FY 2018/19 due to the hike in spending on wages and compensation of employee allocations which rose by 11.4% to record EGP 301bn, up from EGP 270bn, including the recent modifications to public wages issued by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, increasing the minimum wage from EGP 1,200 to EGP 2,000.

Furthermore, the budget also includes the yearly bonus of EGP 150 to be allotted to state employees either covered or not covered by the Civil Service law.

Minister of Finance, Mohamed Moeit, announced on Monday that the FY 2019/20 budget includes an unprecedented increase in the allocations for education and health, reaching EGP 326.8bn, up from EGP 257.7bn in FY 2018.

According to Moeit, the education and health allocations include EGP 134.8bn for basic education, EGP 67bn for higher education, and EGP 124.9bn for health.

The allocations for medicine also increased significantly recording EGP 9.7bn, compared to EGP 7bn in last budget, besides EGP 1.5bn for infant formula subsidies, EGP 7.6bn for treatment at state’s expense, and EGP 1.3bn for Egypt’s new universal healthcare system.

Furthermore, Moeit explained that the new budget earmarks EGP 69bn for pension funds, and EGP 18.5bn for the Takaful and Karama social programmes.

In regards to food and commodities subsidies, he indicates that they have increased to EGP 149bn, of which EGP 89bn are for food commodities, EGP 52.9bn are for petroleum subsidies, decreasing by EGP 35bn compared to FY 2018/19, EGP 4bn are for electricity subsidies, EGP 1bn are for water subsidies, and EGP 3.5bn to connect 1.3m households to the natural gas grid.

The new budget sets the price of Brent crude at $68 per barrel, up from $67 per barrel in the current FY. In the 2017/18 budget, the price of an oil barrel globally was set at $55 per barrel.

Egypt is highly vulnerable to crude oil price fluctuations, as each $1 increase in the Brent crude’s price would cost the state EGP 4bn.

Additionally, the budget included EGP 3.46bn for transportation, including EGP 1.85bn for Cairo Transportation Authority and Alexandria Transportation Authority, and EGP 1.6bn for subsidised student subscriptions.

According to the new budget, total public expenditure amounted to about EGP 1.574tn, compared to EGP 1.424tn in the budget of the current FY, marking a 10.5% growth.

Meanwhile, revenues amounted to EGP 1.134tn, growing by 14.7% in year-over-year (y-o-y) terms, with tax collection rising 13% y-o-y to EGP 856.6bn and other earnings up 30% to EGP 277.8bn.

According to the new budget, government investments increased by 42.2% to record EGP 211bn, of which EGP 140bn are investments financed by the state treasury.

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By Mohamed Samir
Mohamed Samir Khedr is an economic and political journalist, and analyst specialising in geopolitical conflicts in the Middle East, Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean. Over the past decade, he covered Egypt's and the MENA region's financial, business, and geopolitical updates. He is currently the Executive Editor of the Daily News Egypt. Twitter: https://twitter.com/Moh_S_Khedr LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamed-samir-khedr/
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