Bread prices have long been a sensitive political issue in Egypt. In 1977, President Anwar Sadat cut the subsidies, triggering protests known as the “bread intifada”—ultimately forcing him to roll back his subsidy reform. In 2011, Egyptians took to the streets protesting the regime of President Hosni Mubarak with slogans calling for “bread, freedom, and social justice.” In 2017, Egyptian Ministry of Supply proposals to reduce the state-sponsored provision of bread from up to 4,000 to 500 loaves per bakery provoked large-scale protests across the country.
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NEW PUBLICATION: Don’t spend it all in one place: The medium-term effects of a national cash transfer program on household well-being
Cash transfer programs are often effective at increasing household consumption in their early years, but impacts become more nuanced over time as the use of transfers varies. This paper examines the medium-term effects of Egypt’s f lagship cash transfer program, Takaful, on several measures of household wellbeing using a regression discontinuity (RD) design
Events
Policy Workshop Advancing Policy Innovation for Social Protection, Food, and Water in Egypt
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Water Management Research Institute (IWMI) are convening a policy workshop that will gather government agencies engaged in shaping Egypt’s food, water and social protection policies.
Arab FNS Blog
The struggle to get food aid from Egypt to Gaza: Insights from the Egyptian Food Bank
The Gaza Strip has entered a “worst case” food crisis, with its population now facing famine, according to a July 29 Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) alert. Responding to growing international outrage over the emergency, two days earlier, Israel said it was reopening humanitarian aid corridors—allowing international organizations to resume convoys—while the Israeli Defense Force announced a daily “tactical pause” on operations in densely-populated Gaza City, Deir al-Balah, and Mawasi to facilitate aid distribution.
ICARDA
Egypt SSP is a joint program of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA)
