Issue 70 (January – March 2024)

This report presents the results of a periodic evaluation carried out by the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES) of a sample of 120 private sector firms covering various sectors and sizes, reflecting the opinion of the business community regarding developments in a set of variables, specifically: production, domestic sales and exports, commodity inventory, level of capacity utilization, prices, wages, employment, and investment, during the quarter January-March 2024 and its expectations for the quarter April–June 2024, comparing the results with the previous quarter (October– December 2023) and the corresponding quarter (January-March 2023). Below is a brief review of the key results of the report for the quarter under study (January-March 2024), focusing on key developments in the macroeconomy and results of the overall business barometer index.