Fevereiro de 2023
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Different concepts of inequality lead to different positions in discussions about whether economic growth leads to increasing inequality.
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Internal migration plays an important role in the economic development of individuals, their families, and their country. This study describes Mozambique’s most common migration patterns from 1992 until 2017 using data from three population censuses.
Janeiro de 2023
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Informal self-employed traders in developing countries are vulnerable to shocks as they often lack access to social insurance or formal finance. This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on these urban traders in...
Dezembro de 2022
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This study presents and discusses structural features of the Mozambique economy through the lens of a recently constructed 2019 social accounting matrix (SAM). This is an important reality check of the SAM construction process since...
Dezembro de 2022
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Este estudo investiga os impactos a curto prazo de um choque socioeconómico agregado no consumo alimentar das famílias e na nutrição das crianças, utilizando o caso da pandemia da COVID-19 em Moçambique.
Dezembro de 2023
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Neste estudo, exploramos os factores co-relacionados com a disparidade entre géneros no emprego entre os jovens urbanos em Moçambique. Os jovens são confrontados com decisões simultâneas sobre educação, trabalho e vida familiar, influenciadas por normas...
Dezembro de 2023
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This technical note describes how the 2015 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Mozambique was updated. New Household Budget Survey data availability, changes in the economic structure as captured by the underlying Supply and Use Tables...
Dezembro de 2022
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Após décadas de guerra, que terminou em 1992, Moçambique iniciou uma trajectória de crescimento económico sustentado e de redução substancial da pobreza. No entanto, esta dinâmica positiva começou a inverter-se a partir de 2015, com...
Dezembro de 2022
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Digital labour platforms have grown five-fold over the last decade, enabling significant expansion in gig work worldwide. We interrogate the criticism that these platforms tend to amplify aggregate economic shocks for registered users (workers).
Setembro de 2022
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The magnitude of returns to colonial-era investments in Africa has been addressed in an extensive literature, as have the nature and legacies of extractive colonial institutions.
Junho de 2022
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Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in either formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates.
Junho de 2022
Artigo de jornal
THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | This study assesses the economic costs of COVID-19 and the state of emergency implemented by the Government of Mozambique.
Rosário Betho, Marcia Chelengo, Sam Jones, Michael...
Artigo de jornal
A wide range of evidence shows systematic differences in health status among social groups, which are associated with unequal exposure to and distribution of the social determinants of health (SDH).
Outubro de 2021
Documento de trabalho
The paper brings out how difficult it is to make institutional reforms work, within a structure of political and economic power that may not benefit from them, even in the context of a high degree...
Agosto de 2021
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This paper explores agricultural performance of Mozambique, its institutional weaknesses, and the underlying factors that underpin an unsatisfactory performance during many decades.
Agosto de 2021
Documento de trabalho
Participação informada: os efeitos do tratamento da informação na não resposta do painel (em inglês)
This paper builds on a longitudinal school-to-work transition phone survey experiment to quantify the effects on attrition of communicating with participants. Specifically, we study the impact of sending topically relevant information on job market conditions...
August 2021