The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved $3 billion finance agreement with the temporary government in Egypt.
The agreement will last over 12 months to help Egypt to put its economy back on track. Samir Radwan, the Finance Minister, said on Sunday that the country announces the end of concessions with the IMF and the settling of a deal with the finance to re-launch the economy of Egypt.
Radwan told the reporters that the two sides agreed to$3 billion finance for over 12 months with 1.5 percent interest rate, adding the finance will aid partially compensate a budget shortage of $28 billion. In addition, the finance grants the country three years and three months as its grace period followed by five years to give it back to IMF.
On the other hand, Ratna Sahay, Central Asia and Middle East’s deputy director of the fund’s department, said that they are dedicated to help the country and they are aware of the demands on state resources, specifically when it comes to money transfers from tourism and overseas employees.
The economy of Egypt, which depends in huge portion on tourism, has seen a remarkable decline in the arrivals of tourist and near zero economic development during and after the rebellion that expelled ex-President Hosni Mubarak last February.
Tens of thousands of Egyptian employees in Libya, who employed to send money back to their relatives in Egypt, also had to run away the conflict in the nearest North African country. The IMF stated last May 12 that it had received a finance request from the country.
Egypt, which approximates in needs between $10 billion and $12 billion in worldwide funding to keep it going until the middle part of 2012, was courting finances worth approximately $6 billion from the IMF, as well as the World Bank.


