Over the years, IFPRI’s research, with support from PIM since 2012, has informed important decisions on Egypt’s key safety net programs, including the food subsidy and the national cash transfer programs. This note summarizes some of the most recent outcomes of this work.
NEW PUBLICATION: Food subsidies and cash transfers in Egypt
Evaluating general equilibrium benefits and trade-offs By Clemens Breisinger, Yumna Kassim, Sikandra Kurdi, Josée Randriamamonjy, and James Thurlow Most Egyptians receive food subsidies, which are the cornerstone of the country’s social protection system. The government recently attempted to reduce subsidies, with limited success, and introduced a cash transfer program targeting the poor. We use a […]
UNFSS Independent Dialogue in Egypt: “The Role of Water Security for Food Systems Transformation” 19 Apr, 2021
Monday, April 19th, 2021
1:00 pm to 3:30 pm (Cairo Local Time)
Water scarcity remains a key challenge for agricultural development in the MENA region, including Egypt. Scarcity is rapidly growing as a result of [...]
NEW PUBLICATION: Impact of COVID-19 on Egypt’s dairy and artichoke value-chains
By Fatma Abdelaziz, Kibrom A. Abay, Hoda El-Enbaby, Clemens Breisinger, and Sikandra Kurdi
The COVID-19 crisis is having strong impacts on the Egyptian economy, but these impacts differ strongly across sectors.1 Based on scenarios run using a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) multiplier model of Egypt’s economy, COVID-19 is estimated to have resulted in [...]
NEW PUBLICATION: Regional Developments – MENA
By Kibrom Abay, Clemens Breisinger, Dalia Elsabbagh, Hosam Ibrahim, Ahmed Kamaly, and Mariam Raouf
As in most regions, the coronavirus pandemic evolved rapidly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), starting as a health crisis in mid-March and later escalating into a large-scale economic crisis affecting the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. Beyond the devastating health impacts and death tolls from COVID-19, the pandemic has added to other serious challenges currently facing the region. These include [...]
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