December 19, 2014 By: Olivier Ecker (Research Fellow), Jean Francois Trinh Tan (Research Analyst), and Perrihan Al-Riffai (Sr. Research Analyst) - IFPRI For decades, food subsidies have been one of the main pillars of Egypt’s social protection policy. As the world’s top importer of wheat, Egypt spends billions of dollars every year to subsidize bread—a vital […]