IFPRI’s Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division (PHND) – New Delhi aims to hire 2 Research Analysts (RA) to work on multiple projects related to nutrition, health, and gender! If that wasn’t enough to grab the attention of budding researchers, here’s why a position with IFPRI- PHND is a great opportunity for you: The PHND team >> Read more Source: POSHAN: Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India
Publication: Beyond the business case for agricultural value chain development: An economywide approach applied to Egypt
Clemens Breisinger, Mariam Raouf, James Thurlow, Manfred Wiebelt
This paper goes beyond the “business” case for agricultural value chain development and presents an economy-wide framework to make the “development” case. We show that there are several key transmission channels that determine the economy-wide impacts of promoting various value chains, including forward and backward economic linkages, price responses, and net employment effects. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Publication: Energy subsidy reform for growth and equity in Egypt: The approach matters
Clemens Breisinger, Askar Mukashov, Mariam Raouf, and Manfred Wiebelt
Phasing out energy subsidies is high on the agenda of policymakers in several Middle Eastern and North African countries. The impact of such reform can vary widely depending on the country and policy. This paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the phasing out of energy subsidies in Egypt under alternative economic scenarios. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Publication: Can unconditional cash transfers mitigate the impact of civil conflict on acute child malnutrition in Yemen?: Evidence from the national social protection monitoring survey
Olivier Ecker, Jean-François Maystadt, Zhe Guo
Hunger and acute child malnutrition are increasingly concentrated in fragile countries and civil conflict zones. According to the United Nations, Yemen’s civil war has caused the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in recent history. We use high-frequency panel data and district fixed-effects and household fixed-effects models to estimate the impact of civil conflict on child nutrition. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Evaluation finds successes for Egypt’s first conditional cash transfer program
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. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
