The labor force participation rate for women in Egypt fell to 18% in 2023.[1] Among the major factors theorized to contribute to this low rate is women’s time spent on care work. While women’s childcare work is undervalued in national GDP accounting, early childhood is a critical stage in human development that shapes the trajectory for individuals’ health, learning, and overall wellbeing throughout their lives. This seminar will bring together completed and emerging research on drivers of women’s employment and time use on the one hand with research and policy discussion regarding early childhood nutrition, nurseries, breastfeeding, and early childhood education.
IFPRI’s Director General Wins AAEA for Superior Communications
Jo Swinnen was awarded the Quality of Communications Award for the book COVID-19 and Global Food Security and the blog posts, events, and distribution channels used to disseminate it.
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 […]
The Impact of COVID-19 on Tunisia’s Economy, Agri-food System, and Households
Dalia Elsabbagh – Senior Research Assistant in the Egypt Strategy Support Program (ESSP) of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), based in Cairo.
The COVID-19 pandemic quickly evolved from a health crisis to a large-scale global economic crisis. Like most of the world’s countries, Tunisia is facing a new unfamiliar challenge [...]
