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Egypt's planning minister said on Wednesday the country's average economic growth was expected to be 3 percent in the second half of the 2014/2015 fiscal year, compared with 5.6 percent in the first half of the year.
Ashraf al-Arabi told reporters at a news conference that average economic growth for the current fiscal year would be 4 percent, or slightly above 4 percent.