Egypt’s recent economic success will almost certainly be interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Too much of a good thing? Evidence that fertilizer subsidies lead to overapplication in Egypt
As part of a national policy to ensure a certain level of food self-sufficiency in strategic crops, the government of Egypt subsidizes nitrogen fertilizer directly by distributing quotas of subsidized fertilizers to farmers and indirectly by subsi
This baseline report is part of a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) to evaluate the Feed the Future Egypt, Food-Security and
Women’s control over decision-making within their family, particularly regarding the use of household income, can play an important and long-lasting role in shaping their well-being and that of their children.
Ex-post adjustment for measurement error in child stunting calculations: An illustration from Egypt
This study provides estimated ranges for the magnitude of bias caused by measurement error in stunting rates in young children, a widely used proxy for long-term nutritional status.
First regionalized social accounting matrix for Egypt: A 2015 nexus project social accounting matrix
The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) is pleased to present the first regionalized social accounting matrix (SAM) for Egypt.
The success of nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions in countries in the Middle East and North Africa has not been examined in much depth.
To narrow this knowledge gap, a smallholder farm household survey was conducted in six governorates in Upper Egypt in April and May 2018 following the winter cropping season.
This paper characterizes smallholder farm households in Upper Egypt based on data from a comprehensive farm household survey.
Beyond the business case for agricultural value chain development: An economywide approach applied to Egypt
This paper goes beyond the “business” case for agricultural value chain development and presents an economy-wide framework to make the “development” case.
Projections show energy subsidy cuts may hamper economic growth in the short term, but will improve growth and household welfare in the longer term with support from appropriate policies and social protections.
An evaluation of energy supply strategies for Egypt’s power sector, identifying prospects to meet rising electricity demand while addressing energy security and low-carbon development issues.
Research guide for water-energy-food nexus analysis
The project titled “The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Global, Basin and Local Case Studies of Resource Use Efficiency under Growing Natural Resource Scarcity“ (2015-2018), which was supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Develop
Egypt’s Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Evaluation of program impacts and recommendations
Egypt has been providing cash to poor households through its first conditional cash transfer program, Takaful and Karama, a social protection program run by the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MoSS), since March 2015.
Targeting social safety nets using proxy means tests: Evidence from Egypt’s Takaful and Karama program
Chapter 10 uses Egypt as a case study to examine the effectiveness of proxy means test (PMT) targeting.
Using governorate-level national data and household survey data, we build a typology of farm households in Egypt that allows us to describe how different farm households behave in response to policy and environmental changes affecting their resour
The latest population census in Egypt shows that there are more people now living along the narrow strip of land by the Nile than ever before, 95 million (CAPMAS 2017).
Clusters as drivers of local industrial development in Egypt: Which are the promising sectors and locations?
Clusters – the geographic concentration of specialized firms that are working in similar or related activities and are interdependent – have played an important role in the industrial development of many countries, including in Europe, the America