 Nutrition and economic development: Exploring Egypt's exceptionalism and the role of food subsidiesOlivier Ecker, Perrihan Al-Riffai, Clemens Breisinger () and Rawia El-Batrawy IFPRI synopses from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Abstract: 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. Keywords: nutrition; nutrition policies; economic development; malnutrition; diabetes; obesity; food policies; subsidies; poverty; agricultural policies; agricultural development; resilience; capacity development; Egypt; Africa; Northern Africa; Middle East (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fpr:synops:9780896292406 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in IFPRI synopses from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Contact information at EDIRC. |
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