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Amal Kandeel, Non-resident Scholar, Middle East Institute
Micronutrient deficiency and particularly Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA) are prevalent in Egypt. The government’s IDA mitigation strategy is focused on consumer-level interventions. Given fast-paced population growth, rising water scarcity, and poverty, a strategy that integrates upstream measures would strengthen the policy response and better support its public health targets.
Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) is a comprehensive and coherent socio-economic database that combines many datasets ranging from sectoral survey data, economic census, trade data, national accounts, government budget, direct and indirect taxes as well as subsidies. As such, it is considered as a representation for the economy, that shows the circular flow of all transfers and real transactions between sectors and institutions. Having a more disaggregated SAM with regards to activities, households, subnational regions is very important for economic analysis
Clemens Breisinger, Askar Mukashov, Mariam Raouf, and Manfred Wiebelt
In order to address long-standing economic challenges, in 2016 the Government of Egypt (GOE) put in place a major economic reform program to restore macroeconomic stability and to promote inclusive growth. As a result, there are early signs that the economy is rebounding and Egypt’s economic outlook is becoming more favorable. However, it is less clear how the ongoing reform program is affecting households, especially the poor. To shed light on this question, this paper uses an economy-wide model to estimate the distributional impacts of the energy subsidy cuts in 2014, 2016, and 2017, the currency devaluation at the end of 2016, and the expected complete phasing out of energy subsidies over the coming years.
Jose Luis (IFPRI Egypt) On December 11th, 2017 IFPRI organized a session as part of FAO-WHO-WFP Regional Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition. The session (see agenda) aimed at discussing the potential of social protection policies and programs (SPP) to improve nutrition and promote healthy diets in the NENA region. […]
January 29, 2018 By: Sherine Al-Shawarby, Vice Dean, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University Over the many upheavals and spells of stability, Egypt’s policy makers have persistently prioritized food subsidies in an effort to achieve social equity and political stability. The recently published World Bank book The 1.5 billion People Question: Food, Vouchers, or Cash? includes […]
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)
