By Clemens Breisinger, Mariam Raouf, Manfred Wiebelt, Ahmed Kamaly, 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 ... Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Economic impact of COVID-19 on tourism and remittances: Insights from Egypt
Clemens Breisinger - Senior Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Development Strategy and Governance Division (DSGD) and Head of IFPRI’s Egypt Strategy Support Program (ESSP), based in Cairo.
Abla Abdel Latif - Executive Director of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES) in Cairo.
Mariam Raouf - Research Associate of IFPRI’s Egypt Strategy Support Program (ESSP), based in Cairo.
Manfred Wiebelt - Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Economics at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, Germany.
As COVID-19 reaches everywhere, low- and middle-income countries are racing to respond to this massive and fast-moving challenge. In the first country blog post in this series, Clemens Breisinger and colleagues assess the pandemic’s economic impacts for Egypt. Household income, especially for the poor, will be hard-hit, linked to disruptions in tourism and declining remittances. The team provides initial policy insights for support to households and businesses. [...] Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
A Call for Evidence-based and Sustained Action for Improving Nutrition in Egypt
Highlights from IFPRI Egypt-NNC seminars to support “The 100 Million Healthy Lives Initiative” September 17, 2019 Aula Ali - IFPRI Egypt office intern Habiba Hassan Wassef - Health and Nutrition Policy in Sustainable Development Researcher, National Research Center Sahar Zaghloul - Vice President, National Nutrition Committee Clemens Breisinger - IFPRI Egypt Country Program Leader […] Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
News: The 100 Million Healthy Lives Initiative: Food availability, access and consumption patterns in Egypt
Mai Mahmoud - IFPRI Egypt
In support of the strategic goals of the "100 Million Health" initiative, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) held the second seminar in a series of seminars co-organized with the National Nutrition Committee (affiliated by the Academy for Scientific Research and Technology). The IFPRI Egypt seminar, "Research to support the 100 Million Healthy Lives Initiative: Food availability, access and consumption patterns in Egypt", took place at the National Nutrition Institute (NNI) on March 24, 2019. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
What’s the future of food subsidies in Egypt?
Hoda El-Enbaby and Clemens Breisinger - IFPRI
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. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
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