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Ahmed Akhter

Akhter Ahmed

Akhter Ahmed is a Senior Research Fellow in the IFPRI’s Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit and Country Representative for IFPRI Bangladesh. He has worked on strategies for agricultural and rural development, social protection, and women’s empowerment to reduce poverty, food insecurity, and undernutrition in developing countries including Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Malawi, the Philippines, and Turkey.

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Households spending more on food—report (The Nation)

January 30, 2021


The Nation (Malawi) published an article stating that households in urban areas are spending an average of 56 percent of their expenditure on food, a development that shows that food prices are on the rise. According to IFPRI’s current research, in Malawi, poverty levels were projected to worsen in the just-ended year to 56.3 percent from 50.5 percent as the measures which were affected to reduce the Covid-19 spread had reduced household incomes by an average of 11.4 percent.

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