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

This book’s main hypothesis is that Egypt’s large food subsidy system has been ineffective in reducing undernutrition; in fact, it may have contributed to sustaining and even aggravating both nutrition challenges. For a long time, the subsidy system provided only calorie-rich foods, at very low and...

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Main Authors: Ecker, Olivier, Al-Riffai, Perrihan, Breisinger, Clemens, El-Batrawy, Rawia
Format: Libro
Language:Inglés
Chinese
Arabic
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/139942

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