Tracy Brown Egypt is a special case among middle-income countries that experience high economic growth: Rather than seeing a drop in chronic child undernutrition during its high-growth period in the 2000s, Egypt experienced a rise in child stunting and a further increase in the “double burden of malnutrition”—that is, the simultaneous presence of chronic undernutrition […]
News: Agricultural transformation and agribusiness opportunities – A way forward for development in Egypt
Hagar ElDidi (IFPRI-Egypt) & Alejandro Nin-Pratt (IFPRI) Economic transformation is the reallocation of economic activity across the three broad sectors (agriculture, manufacturing, and services) that accompanies the process of modern economic growth. As labor and other resources move from agriculture into more productive activities, overall productivity rises and incomes expand. The process of economic transformation […]
News: Making Egypt’s Agriculture More Nutrition-Sensitive and Evaluating Nutritional Impact
By: Hoda El-Enbaby, Olivier Ecker and Jef Leroy Maximizing agriculture’s contribution to improving rural household income and food security has been the main goal of many development programs and policies in developing countries for decades. More recently, interventions in agriculture have increasingly aimed at achieving additional development outcomes such as improving nutrition and health among […]
News: Clusters have a lot of potential in Egypt that remain untapped…
Fatma Abdelaziz and Yasmine Mandour- Development Strategy and Governance Division, IFPRI. The conventional development thinking is to provide countries with what they lack, such as financial resources and sound institutions. A more viable and sustainable approach often is to build on and enhance existing strengths. As the new Egypt is on mission to foster job-creating […]
Publication: Nutrition and economic development: Exploring Egypt’s exceptionalism and the role of food subsidies
Egypt faces two nutritional challenges. The first is the “growth-nutrition disconnect.” High economic growth has not been accompanied by reduction in chronic child malnutrition, at least throughout the 2000s. Instead, the prevalence of child stunting increased during this decade—an atypical trend for a country outside wartime. The second challenge is the simultaneous presence of chronic undernutrition and overnutrition (due to excess consumption of calories).
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