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Ministry of Labour and Social Security launches IGM report on school-to-work transition of TVET students in MozambiqueOn 24 June 2021, the Ministry of Labour and Social Security of Mozambique (MITSS) launched the final report of the survey on the School-to-Work Transition of Technical and Vocational Training Graduates in Mozambique.
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Report
Survey on the School-to-Work Transition of Technical and Vocational Training Graduates in Mozambique
Final ReportThis report documents the main conclusions of the Survey on the School-to-Work Transition
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Research brief
Is technical and vocational education and training a solution for youth unemployment?
The dynamics of school-to-work transition of TVET graduates in MozambiqueTechnical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is often seen as a silver bullet resolving issues ranging from youth unemployment to labour market-related structural change.
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Finland and Norway sign agreements extending IGM programme to 2024
On 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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Working paper
The role of trust and of poverty in compliance with social distancing measures in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic
In this study, the authors have joined the new and growing body of literature by asking how trust in 18 African countries shapes commitment to the COVID-19 -related social distancing me...
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Working paper
Horizontal and intersecting inequalities in Mozambique 1997–2017
This study seeks to add to the research on inequality in least developed countries, namely in Mozambique, by measuring and mapping indicators of horizontal wealth inequality along geographic regi...
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Working paper
The socioeconomic impact of coal mining in Mozambique
This study assesses the impact of four coal mines in Mozambique on the socioeconomic outcomes of the local population. We combine four waves of household surveys with coal mine locations data and...
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News
Ministry of Economy and Finance trains social sectors in MOZMOD
A six-day MOZMOD retreat, organized in partnership between the National Directorate of Economic and Development Policies (DNPED) of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Mozambique, UNU-WIDER, t...
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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...