
Manufacturing, Extractives Dependence Index declines by 9.7% in January: CAPMAS
Egypt’s Manufacturing and Extractives Dependence Index – excluding oil and gas products – decreased by 9.7% in January to 121.78, down from 134.83 in December 2018, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced on Sunday. In sector terms, chemicals and chemical products’ manufacturing index increased by 5.2% to 144.36 in January 2019, …