In the latest figures released by CAPMAS, the country’s poverty rate declined to 29.7%, compared to 32.5% in the study of income and spending for FY 2017/18.
El-Said further explained that “public investments in Sohag governorate are distributed across different sectors, with EGP 2.5bn for housing and utilities sector, EGP 1.56bn for local development, EGP 444m for health care, EGP 240m for higher education, and EGP 640.4m for other sectors.”
