The availability of comprehensive and coherent socio-economic data is an essential requirement for the development, implementation, and assessment of any national strategic plan, like Egypt’s Sustainable Development Strategy 2030. Social accounting matrices (SAMs) combine many datasets produced by statistical agencies and national institutions – such as Central Banks and Ministries of Finance and Agriculture – […]
News: Building datasets as the basis for sound policy making in Egypt: the case of CAPMAS-IFPRI collaboration
Perrihan Al-Riffai, Sr. Research Analyst, Development Strategy and Governance Division, IFPRI. Many people in Egypt these days think about the best ways for getting the economy back on track, how to create jobs and how to cushion the inevitable side-effects of the exchange rate devaluation, value added taxes, subsidies and other reforms. So the issue […]
News: Are Egyptian Exports Being Restricted?
By Hoda El-Enbaby (Senior Research Assistant, IFPRI) and Chahir Zaki (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University) Countries generally have high incentives to protect their people from all different types of risks that can affect them. Yet, in some instances, this protection comes at other costs. In terms of […]
Publication: Food policy developments in the MENA region and future outlook
By: Hagar El-didi The recently published 2016 Global Food Policy Report highlights how the convulsions in the Arab region have contributed to curbing progress in reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)–impeding regional food security and threatening achievement of the newly proposed SDGs. Turbulent economic-political environments Intensified armed conflicts in the Middle East resulted in the […]
News: Measuring Poverty and Hunger in Egypt
By: Fatma Abdelaziz, Hagar El-didi and Yasmine Mandour The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide Egypt with a new framework to monitor and measure its progress and identify gaps and challenges in areas of poverty reduction and ending hunger. But Egypt will need to coordinate these with its own national Sustainable Development Strategy 2030 (SDS), make sure […]
