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Ahmed Akhter

Akhter Ahmed

Akhter Ahmed is a Senior Research Fellow in the IFPRI’s Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit and Country Representative for IFPRI Bangladesh. He has worked on strategies for agricultural and rural development, social protection, and women’s empowerment to reduce poverty, food insecurity, and undernutrition in developing countries including Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Malawi, the Philippines, and Turkey.

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The International Food Policy Research Center confirms Egypt’s success in facing corona (Akhbarelyom.com)

May 04, 2021


Akhbarelyom.com published an article that stated IFPRI’s findings on how Egypt fared during the pandemic. IFPRI confirmed that some economies and sectors are recovering at a faster rate based on the adopted national policies, explaining that the stimulus package, which amounted to 100 billion in Egypt, limited the decline in GDP in the period from April to June 2020 from 8.7 percent to Only 1.1 percent. The 2021 Global Food Policy Report referred to the investment plan that Egypt is implementing now, at a value of EGP 280 billion, which led to improving economic performance in the second half of 2020. 

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