Egypt's central bank said that local investment in the country reached 7.64 billion Egyptian pounds in the first quarter of the fiscal year that began in July, up 1.27 percent year-on-year, state media agency MENA reported on Tuesday.
The first quarter of the 2013-14 fiscal year saw Egypt's army remove elected Islamist president Mohamed Mursi from power following mass protests against his rule, renewing political and economic turmoil that started with a 2011 uprising.
Mursi's removal preceded a crackdown that began by targeting Islamists and has since expanded to include secular opponents of the government of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
The government, which says it is committed to democracy, is trying to burnish Egypt's image ahead of a key investment conference in mid-March.
It hopes that the conference in the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh will tempt foreign and local investors to pump more money into an economy that is seeing a nascent but uncertain recovery.
