Hoda El-Enbaby and Clemens Breisinger - IFPRI
Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta - World Bank
In Egypt’s current context of wide-ranging economic reforms, there is growing momentum to improve the longstanding Tamween food subsidy system. Tamween’s ration cards benefit around 70 million people, while the bread subsidy benefits around 83 million people, and together they make up about 6 percent of the government’s budget. During a workshop organized by the World Bank under the auspices of the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade (MoSIT), on May 20th, 2019, Marina Wes (World Bank Country Director for Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti) emphasized the potential expected gains of reforming the subsidy program, and the importance of learning from other countries while contextualizing to Egypt-specific conditions.
