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Nutrition and economic development: Exploring Egypt's exceptionalism and the role of food subsidies

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  • Ecker, Olivier
  • Al-Riffai, Perrihan
  • Breisinger, Clemens
  • El-Batrawy, Rawia

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Egypt faces two nutritional challenges. The first is the “growth-nutrition disconnect.†High economic growth has not been accompanied by reduction in chronic child malnutrition, at least throughout the 2000s. Instead, the prevalence of child stunting increased during this decade—an atypical trend for a country outside wartime. The second challenge is the simultaneous presence of chronic undernutrition and overnutrition (due to excess consumption of calories). This “double burden of malnutrition†exists not only at the national level but also within families and even individual children. Both challenges are exceptionally pronounced in Egypt compared to other developing countries. Nutrition and Economic Development: Exploring Egypt’s Exceptionalism and the Role of Food Subsidies examines the two nutritional challenges in depth and their relationship to public policy.

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  • Ecker, Olivier & Al-Riffai, Perrihan & Breisinger, Clemens & El-Batrawy, Rawia, 2016. "Nutrition and economic development: Exploring Egypt's exceptionalism and the role of food subsidies," IFPRI synopses 9780896292406, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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    1. Rania Megally & Hebatallah Ghoneim, 2020. "Evaluation of health intervention: a case of preschool children in Egypt," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 6(1), pages 1-8, December.
    2. Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Catharien & de Miguel Garcia, Angel & Wilbers, Gert-Jan & Wolters, Wouter & Heesmans, Hanneke & Dankers, Rutger & Smit, Robert & Smaling, Eric, 2022. "IFAD Research Series 81: Food and water systems in semi-arid regions – case study: Egypt," IFAD Research Series 322002, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

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