Latest in Tag: Hala El-Said Highlight
Latest in Tag: Hala El-Said

Egypt’s sustainable development, economic growth is joint government-private sector responsibility: Hala El-Said
Supporting Egyptian products leads to an increase in private consumption and investments, which are essential for economic growth, says minister

Planning Minister announces Egypt Award for Government Services Applications winners
The Tazkartak (‘Your Ticket’) app by Ain Shams University won top prize, followed by the An Accident application for the interior affairs sector, “Discover Egypt”

Egypt offers its expertise in fighting against COVID-19
Minister Hala El-Said calls for establishing global or regional solidarity fund for COVID-19

Egypt launches initiative to improve quality of life in 1,000 neediest villages
Total of EGP 3.5bn pumped into initiative’s first phase, bringing total to EGP 13.5bn by FY 2020/21 end

Egypt targets EGP 45.3bn of electricity sector investments in FY 2020/21: El-Said
Electricity sector is set to increase its production at current prices during FY 2020/21 to about EGP 180.9bn, says El-Said

Participatory Budgeting first step to involve citizens in decision-making: Hala El-Said
It comes on the sidelines of a Wednesday seminar hosted at Alexandria University via video conference, in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to discuss the participatory budgeting and increase the efficiency of public spending in light of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.

Egypt’s Planning Minister, Iraq Ambassador agree to boost economic ties
Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq undertake measures to increase trilateral trade, investment, says Hala El-Said

Economic reforms give Egyptian pound flexibility, resistance against shocks: Hala El-Said
Most international institutions have praised Egypt’s economy, steps taken by government to confront COVID-19, says Planning Minister

Egypt opens National Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructure
Centre seeks to standardise specifications used in creation, dissemination of spatial data, says Hala El-Said

Planning Minister discusses 3rd phase of financial grant to irregular workers
El-Said says training programmes for irregular workers will be announced after grant disbursement

International confidence in Egyptian economy induced by internal reforms: Hala El-Said
This came in a report of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development on Egypt’s position in international reports.

Egypt-Canada trade exchange reaches $1.7bn: El-Said
Increased cooperation needed in various fields, such as AI and information exchange, says El-Said

Egypt plans for structural reform of 7 promising sectors, including tourism: El-Said
European tourists constitute nearly 60% of visitor flows in Egypt during 2019, Al-Anany reveals

Economic reform helps Egypt withstand pandemic fallout: Planning Minister
Current crisis has taken toll on supply, demand, whilst paralysing all economic sectors, including tourism, aviation, industry

Egypt allocates EGP 47bn to Upper Egypt development in FY 2020/21
The total constitutes 25% of the total distributed government investments, and reflects a 50% increase over the previous plan for 2019/20.

Egypt allocates EGP 93.5bn to healthcare support in FY 2020/21: Planning Minister
COVID-19 related projects will see investments amounting to EGP 8.7m in FY 2020/21

Further EGP 10bn allocated to FY 2019/20 budget against COVID-19
A report issued by the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development added that EGP 2.5bn has been allocated to the Ministry of Housing, and EGP 0.12bn to the Ministry of Transport.

EGP 36.7bn financial allocations for 691 green projects in FY 2020/21
Green Projects include electric train to link New Capital with other new cities, says Hala El-Said

Information infrastructure improvements receive EGP 40bn over 3 years: Planning Minister
El-Said holds technical meeting with research team preparing Egypt’s 2020 human development report

Economy would have been severely stressed by COVID-19 in 2016: El-Said
TSFE plans long-term investments in natural strategic champions, commercial investment opportunities abroad, says Soliman

Unemployment decrease consistent with Egypt’s high growth rates: El-Said
Decrease offset by negative impacts of coronavirus and slight increase in unemployment reported in April

Egypt invests EGP 4trn in 25,000 development projects over 7 years: Planning Minister
More than 16,000 projects, costing EGP 2.2trn were completed between July 2014 and December 2019, says El-Said

Egypt’s GDP to grow 3.5% in FY 2020/2021 if COVID-19 ends: El-Said
Ministers of Planning, Immigration hold videoconference discuss investments with Egyptian businesspeople abroad

Egypt’s current growth resulted from EGP 2.1trn public investments since 2014: El-Said
Sustainable development plans for FY21 are affected by Covid-19, says Planning Minister

Egypt faces two economic scenarios due to COVID-19 impact: Hala El-Said
Government investments increase to EGP 595bn to compensate for slowing of private investment

Egyptian women loan defaulters do not exceed 1%: Minister of Planning
Holding WEF in Egypt while other countries cancel their international activities sends great message about economic situation in country: Maya Morsi

Egypt prioritises education as main pillar of development: Planning Minister
El-Said, Shawky discuss boosting cooperation with IsDB, GPE’s representatives

El Said, Hussein Alamoudi discuss investment opportunities in Egypt
HSSAG proposes implementation of waste-to-energy project

Planning Ministry to update Egypt Vision 2030 soon
New version to focus on partnership between public, private sector, and civil society: Minister El-Said

Hala El-Said: Frontierswoman of Egypt Vision 2030
The frontline politician is now responsible for planning, economic development portfolios, along with being chairperson of Egypt’s SWF