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The year 2017 was marked by increasing uncertainty amid mixed signs of progress. The world enjoyed a strong economic recovery, but global hunger increased as conflicts, famine, and refugee crises persisted. With the withdrawal of the United States from major international agreements, Britain's “Brexit,” and rising anti-immigration rhetoric in many countries, the world began to step away from decades of global integration that have yielded unprecedented reductions in poverty and malnutrition.
Working “With the Grain” to Achieve Subsidy Reform in MENA
March 25, 2015 By: Danielle Resnick, Research Fellow – Development Governance and Strategy Division, IFPRI Since many pro-poor reforms have redistributive consequences, they typically generate perceived winners and losers. Consequently, reform processes are quickly derailed when powerful stakeholders with the most to lose oppose such reforms and mobilize protests aimed at undermining government legitimacy. This traditional […]
