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Home arrow Business arrow Egyptian remittances drop 8.8 pct
Egyptian remittances drop 8.8 pct PDF Print E-mail
Written by Egypt News   
Monday, 12 October 2009
The amount of money sent home by Egyptians living abroad in the financial year 2008/09 to the end of June 2009 dropped 8.8 percent to $7.806 billion year on year, according to Egypt's Information Portal

Remittances from Egyptians living abroad in the previous July-June fiscal year were $8.559 billion, and were $6.321 billion in year 2006/2007.

Remittances are important source of foreign currency for Egypt, along with tourism, oil and gas exports, and Suez Canal revenues.

 

 

 

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