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Egypt's gross domestic product is expected to grow 4 percent in the current financial year to the end of June, up from 2.2 percent last year, Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb said on Wednesday.
Mehleb, speaking to an international conference of government officials and executives in Dubai, also said he believed his government's budget deficit would come in below 10 percent of GDP this year, against 14 percent last year.