Egypt’s Minister of Social Solidarity and Social Protection Nivine El-Kabbag with IFPRI researchers Clemens Breisinger and Hoda El Enbaby share the story of IFPRI’s collaboration with the government of Egypt to evaluate the country’s first national conditional cash transfer program [...]
NEW PUBLICATION: Impact of COVID-19 on the Egyptian economy: Economic sectors, jobs, and households
By Clemens Breisinger, Mariam Raouf, Manfred Wiebelt, Ahmed Kamaly and Mouchera Karara The COVID-19 crisis may lead to a 1.1 percent decline in Egypt’s GDP during the 4th quarter (April to June) of the 2019/20 fiscal year, compared to the same quarter in 2018/19. Without the Government of Egypt’s COVID-19 emergency response package, GDP in […]
Economic impact of COVID-19 on tourism and remittances: Insights from Egypt
Clemens Breisinger - Senior Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Development Strategy and Governance Division (DSGD) and Head of IFPRI’s Egypt Strategy Support Program (ESSP), based in Cairo.
Abla Abdel Latif - Executive Director of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES) in Cairo.
Mariam Raouf - Research Associate of IFPRI’s Egypt Strategy Support Program (ESSP), based in Cairo.
Manfred Wiebelt - Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Economics at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, Germany.
As COVID-19 reaches everywhere, low- and middle-income countries are racing to respond to this massive and fast-moving challenge. In the first country blog post in this series, Clemens Breisinger and colleagues assess the pandemic’s economic impacts for Egypt. Household income, especially for the poor, will be hard-hit, linked to disruptions in tourism and declining remittances. The team provides initial policy insights for support to households and businesses. [...]
NEW PUBLICATION: “Cash Transfers and Women’s Control over Decision-Making and Labor Supply in Egypt”
MENA RP WORKING PAPER Hoda El-Enbaby, Daniel Gilligan, Naureen Karachiwalla, Yumna Kassim, Sikandra Kurd December 2019- revised December 2021 Women’s control over decision-making within their family, particularly regarding the use of household income, can play an important and long-lasting role in shaping their well-being and that of their children. Cash transfer programs often target women in order to increase […]
A Call for Evidence-based and Sustained Action for Improving Nutrition in Egypt
Aula Ali - IFPRI Egypt office intern
Habiba Hassan Wassef - Health and Nutrition Policy in Sustainable Development Researcher, National Research Center
Sahar Zaghloul - Vice President, National Nutrition Committee
Clemens Breisinger - IFPRI Egypt Country Program Leader
What are the recommended actions for supporting the 100 million Healthy Lives initiative: based on the existing data and research and on experts and policy makers that attended the joint IFPRI Egypt - NNC seminars, the following actions are recommended: [...]
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