|
World
-
Region
5/9/2022 4:57:45 PM
The World Bank approved a $150 million soft loan for food security in crisis-hit Lebanon to stabilize bread prices during the coming months, the economy minister said Monday.
|
|
Business
-
Economy
4/25/2022 8:12:46 PM
The Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade announced on Monday that it would reverse its decision to cut by 10 percent its supply of local wheat to municipal bakeries starting 1 May.
|
|
Al-Ahram Weekly
-
Egypt
4/5/2022 10:03:16 PM
Allocations for social protection have increased in the new draft budget as well as measures to cushion the repercussions of global price hikes, reports Nahla Abul-Ezz
|
|
Al-Ahram Weekly
-
Egypt
3/24/2022 7:27:00 PM
The government has announced new incentives for Egypt’s farmers to increase the available wheat.
|
|
Al-Ahram Weekly
-
Egypt
3/23/2022 10:00:00 AM
On Saturday, Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Ali Moselhi said commodity prices in the local market had not yet been affected by the Russian-Ukrainian war, and blamed recent price hikes on coronavirus pandemic-led global inflation.
|
|
Egypt
-
Politics
3/21/2022 3:14:33 PM
Egypt has set fixed prices for unsubsidised bread at outlets and bakeries across the country for three months or until further notice, with violators facing heavy fines, to regulate the market.
|
|
Life & Style
-
Food
3/20/2022 5:15:58 PM
A small bakery in northern Italy is trying to do its part to help
|
|
Al-Ahram Weekly
-
Egypt
3/18/2022 12:38:00 PM
Retail controls, market monitoring, and a ban on the export of strategic commodities are some of the measures being taken to reign in inflation.
|
|
Egypt
-
Politics
3/16/2022 4:58:25 PM
Egypt’s cabinet decided on Wednesday to grant wheat farmers an incentive of EGP 65 for each ardeb (1 ardeb is equivalent to 150kg) to encourage them to increase the quantities they sell to the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade.
|
|
Egypt
-
Politics
3/15/2022 10:30:00 PM
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has directed the government to enforce price controls for unsubsidised bread nationwide to curb recent price hikes, Presidential Spokesman Bassam Rady said in a statement on Tuesday.
|
|
War in Ukraine
-
Economy
3/15/2022 7:00:00 AM
The United Nations chief warned Monday that Russia's war on Ukraine is holding ‘a sword of Damocles’ over the global economy, especially poor developing countries that face skyrocketing food, fuel and fertilizer prices and are now seeing their breadbasket ‘being bombed’.
|
|
Al-Ahram Weekly
-
Opinion
3/8/2022 9:38:11 PM
Two weeks after the start of the Russian attack on Ukraine, the world, including Egypt, is reckoning up its economic losses from the conflict. In addition to an uncertainty-induced slowing down of investments, disrupted trade, and an outflow of hot money, the world is sharing a common threat – runaway inflation.
|
|
War in Ukraine
-
Economy
3/7/2022 12:42:15 PM
The Russian tanks and missiles besieging Ukraine also are threatening the food supply and livelihoods of people in Europe, Africa and Asia who rely on the vast, fertile farmlands of the Black Sea region known as the ``breadbasket of the world.''
|
|
Al-Ahram Weekly
-
Egypt
2/25/2022 9:48:00 PM
The cabinet is seeking to rationalise the bread subsidy system, halt infringements on agricultural land, and reform rental laws.
|
|
World
-
Africa
2/17/2022 5:08:47 PM
The shell crashed through Aicha Nur's flimsy hut just as she was serving a lunch of bread and milk to her nine-year-old son Tahir.
|
|
Egypt
-
Politics
2/16/2022 9:24:53 PM
The Egyptian government will raise the price of subsidised bread loaves – sold at 5 piastres for over 30 years – but will make sure that the neediest and most marginalised citizens are not affected, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has said.
|
|
Al-Ahram Weekly
-
Economy
2/11/2022 7:51:00 PM
Experts are betting that the Egyptian economy can handle the aftermath of the pandemic, write Niveen Wahish and Sherine Abdel-Razek.
|
|
Egypt
-
Society
2/10/2022 5:39:16 PM
Egypt will stop providing all forms of state subsidies, including subsidised bread, rationing system, and fertilisers to those constructing new buildings illegally on farmland, in a new bid to put a brake on the decades-old issue, the cabinet stated.
|
|
Al-Ahram Weekly
-
Egypt
2/1/2022 10:46:41 PM
Egypt’s strategic wheat reserves are in excellent shape, allowing the government room to manoeuvre soaring global prices, experts tell Ahmed Abdel-Hafez
|
|
Al-Ahram Weekly
-
Egypt
8/26/2021 10:51:00 AM
Whether bread subsidies should be reduced, and by how much, is provoking heated debate in political circles
|