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Finland and Norway sign agreements extending IGM programme to 2024On 7 May 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway signed a funding agreement sealing Phase II of the Inclusive growth in Mozambique programme.
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Journal article
Extending multidimensional poverty identification
From additive weights to minimal bundlesIn the widely-used class of multidimensional poverty measures introduced by Alkire and Foster (2011), dimension-specific weights combined with a single cut-off parameter play a fundamental role i...
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Event
IGM researchers Sam Jones and Finn Tarp discuss effective development cooperation at GPEDC webinar
The Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) will host, on 17 June, an informal online discussion on the potential of the principles of effectiveness in delivering better...
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Working paper
How far does the apple really fall from the tree?
Practical guidance on measuring intergenerational mobility from a simulation frameworkDespite the importance attributed to intergenerational educational mobility in the process of development, there remains little consensus on how mobility should be measured. This paper presents a...
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Opinion
Mozambique's difficult decade: three lessons to inform next steps
At the start of the last decade, Mozambique’s prospects looked stellar. Following from the early 1990s, when peace finally arrived after a devastating and protracted armed conflict, this va...
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Event
IGM researcher Vincenzo Salvucci presents at Nordic Conference in Development Economics
Vincenzo Salvucci, Researcher at the Inclusive growth in Mozambique programme, University of Copenhagen, will present a recent WIDER Working Paper measuring the microeconomic impact of C...
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Vincenzo Salvucci presents at RCSIP workshop on measuring effects of COVID-19 on poverty, inequality and mobility
On 10 June 2021, Vincenzo Salvucci, Researcher at the Inclusive growth in Mozambique programme, will share the findings of a recent WIDER Working Paper ‘The impact of COVID-19 on c...
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Event
MOZMOD retreat
In collaboration with the national MOZMOD team, International Labour Organization (ILO) Mozambique, Ministry of Economy and Finance of Mozambique (MEF) and the South...
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Working paper
Informal freelancers in the time of COVID-19
Insights from a digital matching platform in MozambiqueDespite the severe negative economic shock associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence from many contexts points to a surge in sales on online platforms, as well as shifts in the composition...
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Working paper
The impact of COVID-19 on consumption poverty in Mozambique
This study assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the state of emergency implemented by the Government of Mozambique on household consumption poverty. To predict changes in income and t...
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Working paper
The macroeconomic impact of COVID-19 in Mozambique
A social accounting matrix approachThis study aims to assess the economic costs of COVID-19 and the state of emergency implemented by the Government of Mozambique, relying on a social accounting matrix. It produces numerical resul...
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Working paper
Remote sensing of urban cyclone impact and resilience
Evidence from IdaiCyclone Idai, the most devastating cyclone ever recorded in Southern Africa, caused havoc in large parts of central Mozambique, especially the port city of Beira, upon its landfall in March 2019....
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Working paper
Cash grants to manufacturers after Cyclone Idai
RCT evidence from MozambiqueThe authors of this paper use panel data and a randomized controlled trial to estimate the impact of unconditional cash grants on micro enterprises and their recovery after the Cyclone Idai....