Opinion
Some good news from Mozambique: poverty levels have been reduced

Channing Arndt and Finn Tarp

There has been a serious deficit of good news in Mozambique for quite some time. The recent release of Mozambique’s Fourth Poverty Assessment, based on a large nationally representative household survey conducted in 2014-15, provides...

November 2016

Opinion
Poverty and wellbeing in Mozambique

Vincenzo Salvucci, Ricardo Santos and James...

Policy advisers, development practitioners, and government representatives gathered on 25 October 2016 to discuss Mozambique’s progress over the past three decades with the release of Mozambique’s 4th National Poverty Assessment. Based on the 2014/15 household...

October 2016

Opinion
Macroeconomic policy in Mozambique

Ricardo Santos

On 25 October 2016, the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique project brought together key actors in macroeconomic policy management from the Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Mozambique, and Mozambican academia. The goal was to jointly...

October 2016

Opinion
The evolution of poverty in Mozambique (poster)

Hilário Muchabel, Telça Massingue

HIGHLIGHTS Consumption Poverty (CP) decreased until 14/15, but then increased sharply until 19/20. Multidimensional Poverty (MP) steadily improved, reducing to about half of its 96/97 level in 19/20. The South is multidimensionally less poor than...
Opinion
World bank
Digital platforms and job search

Sam Jones and Kunal Sen

Digital technologies can be deployed to improve job search, but their effectiveness in practice is disrupted. This column uses experimental data to investigate the effect of a digital job-matching platform on the labour outcomes of...

28 August 2022