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Hoda El-Enbaby, Research Associate, IFPRI Egypt
In 2015, the Egyptian government implemented a series of major economic reforms, including ambitious antipoverty programs. To protect the poor and better target them for assistance, the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MOSS), with the support of the World Bank (WB), launched the “Takaful & Karama” Programme(TKP), Egypt’s first national conditional cash transfer (CCT) program.
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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.
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