Eman Moustafa is a Senior Consultant for the Macroeconomic Policy, Debt Sustainability and Forecasting Division of the African Development Bank, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. As well, she is a reviewer in the Journal of Banking and Finance. She is also a Senior Economist (on leave of absence) with the Investment Research Department of the Ministry of Investment and International Cooperation and General Authority for Investment and Free Zones, Cairo, Egypt. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Kingston University London, UK, a Master’s degree in Economics from Queen Mary University of London, UK, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Statistics from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt. She started her career at the Ministry of Investment, Cairo, Egypt. Previously, she had been an Economic Journalist at El-Mal newspaper, Cairo, Egypt. Her primary research interest is in macro-finance, development and growth, macroeconomics and fiscal policies, international finance, economic forecasting, investment policy, with stints in finance and environment.
Disease outbreaks like Ebola and Covid-19 have strong detrimental effects on mortality rates for mothers, infants and young children in low and middle-income countries, both immediately and in the longer term. As this column explains, strengthening preparedness for such emergencies has become more urgent as health disasters continue to erode recent improvements in maternal and child health.