Egypt participates in 27th Economic Research Forum

Egypt participates in 27th Economic Research Forum

CAIRO - 18 May 2021: Dr. Hala El-Said, Minister of Planning and Economic Development, participated Tuesday in the 27th annual conference of the Economic Research Forum, which was held virtually, particularly the session titled "A global economic system in turmoil: What is the situation concerning the Middle East and North Africa?" During her participation, El-Said said that the world is currently witnessing an unprecedented crisis with the spread of the Corona pandemic and its wide-ranging health, economic and social impacts, explaining that these effects are evident in the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. El-Said pointed out the policies that Egypt had taken before the spread of the Corona crisis, which contributed to strengthening the ability of the Egyptian economy to mitigate the negative effects of the epidemic, and the most prominent of these policies was the first phase of the economic and social reform program, launched by the government in 2016, which is consistent with the "vision." Egypt 2030. El-Said explained that the successful implementation of the reform program contributed to the improvement of all economic indicators that appeared in the remarkable increase in the growth rate of GDP, which reached 5.6%, as it was about to