{"id":49447,"date":"2026-10-29T18:47:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49447"},"modified":"2026-10-29T18:47:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:47:43","slug":"imf-aims-for-egypts-last-program-review-to-be-cleared-by-mid-december","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/imf-aims-for-egypts-last-program-review-to-be-cleared-by-mid-december\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF aims for Egypt&#8217;s last program review to be cleared by mid-December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said this Thursday its current mission to Egypt aims to \u200creach a staff-level agreement and bring it to its executive board for approval before mid-December.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The mission is in place for \u2060the final review of the current programs, which end on December 15.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Discussions are going to focus on maintaining a tight monetary policy, maintaining the fiscal consolidation plan, and of course all of this is \u200caimed \u2060at preserving the macroeconomic stability that Egypt has fought hard to achieve,&#8221; said Julie Kozack, the fund&#8217;s \u2060Director of Communications, in a scheduled briefing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She said structural reforms remain a central \u2060part of the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The goal of these reforms is to \u2060support stronger, more private sector-led growth in Egypt,&#8221; Kozack said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16272,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-49447","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"IMF seeks staff level agreement with Egypt before mid December","published_date":"2026-10-29 18:47:12","news_description":"IMF seeks staff level agreement with Egypt before mid December","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49449,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49447\/revisions\/49449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}