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The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Egypt

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The study focuses on the period 2004-09 during which Egypt experienced food crisis. The political economy context on how the government responded to the crisis is analysed while pinpointing to what extent there was a pass-through effect from international to domestic prices. The complexity of food price policy issues and their entanglement with poverty, agricultural, and economic policies in Egypt together with the structural aspects of the food subsidy policies are discussed and evaluated from a political economy perspective.

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  • Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim, 2012. "The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Egypt," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2012-096, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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