… topic are multiple folds: 1) to highlight the major operations of the Egyptian food subsidy …
mainly on better targeting in order to avoid leakage of the subsidies’ benefit to the non needy or …

… A large literature on the traditional pitfalls of the FSS has pointed out the well-known
challenges regarding leakages, the regressive nature of benefits, and various cost inefficiencies. …

… The Egyptian food subsidy system plays an important role in … Egyptian subsidy system,
along with the problems of targeting and leakage have led to several reforms of the Egyptian food …

… If leakages could be eliminated and the coverage of the programme narrowed, savings
could be up to LE 27 billion. Additionally, using IFPRI’s 1997 regional poverty head-count (Datt …

… We hypothesize that Egypt’s large and long-standing food subsidy system has contributed
to sustaining and even aggravating both nutritional challenges. To serve the first objective, we …

… for the current food-subsidy system began during the Second World War, to help Egyptians
to … Ramadan and Thomas argue that: "The Egyptian food subsidy program originated during …

… reform, not only in the targeting mechanisms used but also in the level of benefits available
to the poor. Better targeting will reduce leakage of food subsidies to those who are not …

… the food subsidy system in Egypt, mainly its significant poverty reduction impact, the study
provides hard evidence on the large losses in the subsidy bill, whether in terms of leakages to …

… the Egyptian economy. Addressing food waste and leakage in the food subsidy system …
only for reducing the increasing subsidy’s budget but also to protect the poor Egyptians from …

… • While their economic cost is much lower than the energy subsidies, food subsidies are …
The model captures a leakage of the food subsidies to middlemen as well as the availability …