CAIRO, March 19 (Reuters) - Egyptian Planning Minister Hala al-Saeed said on Sunday the growth rate for the second quarter of the 2016-17 fiscal year had slowed to 3.8 percent from 4 percent during the same period last year, state news agency MENA reported.
Egypt's budget deficit during the first half of the 2016-17 fiscal year, which ends in June 2017, was 5.4 percent of gross domestic product, down from 6.4 percent in the same period last year, Saeed told a news conference.
(Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein; Editing by Dominic Evans) ((ahmed.aboulenein@thomsonreuters.com; +20 2 2394 8097; Reuters Messaging: ahmed.aboulenein.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))
Egypt's budget deficit during the first half of the 2016-17 fiscal year, which ends in June 2017, was 5.4 percent of gross domestic product, down from 6.4 percent in the same period last year, Saeed told a news conference.
(Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein; Editing by Dominic Evans) ((ahmed.aboulenein@thomsonreuters.com; +20 2 2394 8097; Reuters Messaging: ahmed.aboulenein.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))
