Vulnerabilities in Egypt’s banking sector look high by EM standards, but there are signs that these risks should ease and the banking sector has large capital buffers. Perhaps the bigger issue is that bank lending to the government is crowing out credit to the private sector, which could act as a headwind to Egypt’s strong medium-term growth prospects.
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