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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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Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

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With the testimony of the World Bank .. How did Al-Sisi succeed in achieving social security with “solidarity and dignity”? (Dostor) 

November 19, 2020


Dostor published an article on the social protection program, Takaful and Karama, a project to strengthen the social safety network in the 27 governorates inside Egypt. More than 3.1 million families, or nearly 11.1 million individuals, have been registered since the program was launched in 2015. Many of them are women. IFPRI conducted an independent impact evaluation showing that the program had an amazing impact on women’s empowerment and economic integration. Republished inYoum7.

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