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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| author | Ecker, Olivier Al-Riffai, Perrihan Breisinger, Clemens El-Batrawy, Rawia |
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| description | 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 constant prices and with quotas much above dietary recommendations. This system has created incentives to consume calorie-overladen and unbalanced diets, increasing the risks of child and maternal overnutrition and, at high subsidy levels, the risk of inadequate child nutrition. Moreover, the large public budget allocated to the food subsidies is unavailable for possibly more nutrition-beneficial spending, such as for child and maternal nutrition-specific interventions. The authors’ findings consistently suggest that—in addition to the well-known economic rationale for reforming the Egyptian food subsidy system—there are strong reasons to reform food subsidies due to nutrition and public health concerns. A fundamental food subsidy reform process has been under way since June 2014. The already-implemented changes can be expected to have reduced some incentives for overconsumption and may have positive dietary effects. However, further major reform efforts are needed to transform the current subsidy system into a key policy instrument in the fight against malnutrition. The findings of this book should be valuable to policy makers, analysts, development partners, and others concerned with improving food security and promoting healthy nutrition in Egypt and other developing countries with large social protection programs.
This book was translated in 2020 into Chinese.
Ecker, Olivier; Al-Riffai, Perrihan; Breisinger, Clemens; and El-Batrawy, Rawia. 2020. Nutrition and economic development: Exploring Egypt's exceptionalism and the role of food subsidies [in Chinese]. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). ISBN: 9787511648204
This record also includes the following synopsis, published in English and translated into Arabic:
Ecker, Olivier; Al-Riffai, Perrihan; Breisinger, Clemens; and El-Batrawy, Rawia. 2016. Nutrition and economic development: Exploring Egypt's exceptionalism and the role of food subsidies: Synopsis [in Arabic]. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). http://dx.doi.org/10.2499/9780896292406
Ecker, Olivier; Al-Riffai, Perrihan; Breisinger, Clemens; and El-Batrawy, Rawia. 2016. Nutrition and economic development: Exploring Egypt's exceptionalism and the role of food subsidies: Synopsis. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). http://dx.doi.org/10.2499/9780896292406 |
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| spelling | CGSpace1399422025-11-06T03:54:41Z Nutrition and economic development: Exploring Egypt's exceptionalism and the role of food subsidies 营养与经济发展: 埃及食物补贴效果及其特殊性剖析 Ecker, Olivier Al-Riffai, Perrihan Breisinger, Clemens El-Batrawy, Rawia nutrition nutrition policies economic development malnutrition diabetes obesity food policies subsidies poverty agricultural policies agricultural development resilience capacity development 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 constant prices and with quotas much above dietary recommendations. This system has created incentives to consume calorie-overladen and unbalanced diets, increasing the risks of child and maternal overnutrition and, at high subsidy levels, the risk of inadequate child nutrition. Moreover, the large public budget allocated to the food subsidies is unavailable for possibly more nutrition-beneficial spending, such as for child and maternal nutrition-specific interventions. The authors’ findings consistently suggest that—in addition to the well-known economic rationale for reforming the Egyptian food subsidy system—there are strong reasons to reform food subsidies due to nutrition and public health concerns. A fundamental food subsidy reform process has been under way since June 2014. The already-implemented changes can be expected to have reduced some incentives for overconsumption and may have positive dietary effects. However, further major reform efforts are needed to transform the current subsidy system into a key policy instrument in the fight against malnutrition. The findings of this book should be valuable to policy makers, analysts, development partners, and others concerned with improving food security and promoting healthy nutrition in Egypt and other developing countries with large social protection programs. This book was translated in 2020 into Chinese. Ecker, Olivier; Al-Riffai, Perrihan; Breisinger, Clemens; and El-Batrawy, Rawia. 2020. Nutrition and economic development: Exploring Egypt's exceptionalism and the role of food subsidies [in Chinese]. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). ISBN: 9787511648204 This record also includes the following synopsis, published in English and translated into Arabic: Ecker, Olivier; Al-Riffai, Perrihan; Breisinger, Clemens; and El-Batrawy, Rawia. 2016. Nutrition and economic development: Exploring Egypt's exceptionalism and the role of food subsidies: Synopsis [in Arabic]. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). http://dx.doi.org/10.2499/9780896292406 Ecker, Olivier; Al-Riffai, Perrihan; Breisinger, Clemens; and El-Batrawy, Rawia. 2016. Nutrition and economic development: Exploring Egypt's exceptionalism and the role of food subsidies: Synopsis. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). http://dx.doi.org/10.2499/9780896292406 2016-11-15 2024-03-12T15:56:22Z 2024-03-12T15:56:22Z Book https://hdl.handle.net/10568/139942 en zh ar Open Access application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ecker, Olivier; Al-Riffai, Perrihan; Breisinger, Clemens; and El-Batrawy, Rawia. 2016. Nutrition and economic development: Exploring Egypt's exceptionalism and the role of food subsidies. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9787511648204. |
| spellingShingle | nutrition nutrition policies economic development malnutrition diabetes obesity food policies subsidies poverty agricultural policies agricultural development resilience capacity development Ecker, Olivier Al-Riffai, Perrihan Breisinger, Clemens El-Batrawy, Rawia Nutrition and economic development: Exploring Egypt's exceptionalism and the role of food subsidies |
| title | Nutrition and economic development: Exploring Egypt's exceptionalism and the role of food subsidies |
| title_full | Nutrition and economic development: Exploring Egypt's exceptionalism and the role of food subsidies |
| title_fullStr | Nutrition and economic development: Exploring Egypt's exceptionalism and the role of food subsidies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nutrition and economic development: Exploring Egypt's exceptionalism and the role of food subsidies |
| title_short | Nutrition and economic development: Exploring Egypt's exceptionalism and the role of food subsidies |
| title_sort | nutrition and economic development exploring egypt s exceptionalism and the role of food subsidies |
| topic | nutrition nutrition policies economic development malnutrition diabetes obesity food policies subsidies poverty agricultural policies agricultural development resilience capacity development |
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