Fevereiro de 2018
Documento de trabalho
This paper documents a 2015 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Mozambique. The SAM is built using unpublished Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) industry-level production accounts, commodity-level supply–demand balances and a supply matrix, together with national...
Documento de trabalho
In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of...
Dezembro de 2017
Documento de trabalho
In developing countries, women’s decisions concerning their children’s health depend on ‘empowerment’ concerning decision-making, husband/partner’s use of violence, woman’s attitude towards this violence, available information, and resources. We derive an empowerment indicator using the ‘fuzzy...
Dezembro de 2017
Documento de trabalho
We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding non-subsistence sector of the economy in Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender...
Dezembro de 2017
Documento de trabalho
Neste artigo, estudamos as variáveis correlacionadas com a pobreza de consumo e a pobreza multidimensional em Moçambique, utilizando os dados do Inquérito ao Orçamento Familiar de 2014/15
Dezembro de 2017
Documento de trabalho
We here use five rounds of Afrobarometer data covering more than 100,000 individuals over the 2004-2016 period to explore the link between self-assessed measures of living conditions and objective measures of individual well-being (access to...
Dezembro de 2017
Documento de trabalho
In this paper, we investigate the long-term trend of consumption inequality in Mozambique. We show that an imbalanced growth path disproportionally benefited the better-off and caused increasing inequality, especially in more recent years, curbing the...
Dezembro de 2017
Documento de trabalho
This paper investigates the levels and evolution of poverty in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe using the decomposability properties of poverty measures based on a counting approach. We compare poverty measures such as the Alkire...
Dezembro de 2017
Documento de trabalho
This paper provides practical tests for the robustness of multidimensional comparisons of well-being. Focussing on counting-type multidimensional poverty measures, I draw on the properties of positive Boolean threshold functions to prove that the space of...
Dezembro de 2017
Documento de trabalho
Este estudo baseado nos dados do Inquérito sobre Orçamento Familiar mais recente (IOF 2014/15) visa apresentar os principais resultados das estimativas e perfil da pobreza de consumo e da pobreza multidimensional.
Dezembro de 2017
Documento de trabalho
Prior to 2009, there was no direct road connection between the southern regions of Mozambique—where the capital city is located—and the more agriculturally-productive central and northern regions. In this paper, we leverage the opening of...
Novembro de 2017
Documento de trabalho
A recent WIDER Working Paper by Channing Ardnt and Kristi Mahrt shows that the inequality is worse in Mozambique than previously reported, because the consumption of the better off is under reported.
Julho de 2017
Relatório
O modelo de microsimulação de benefícios fiscais tornou-se uma ferramenta valiosa para os países calcularem os efeitos de políticas sobre a renda familiar e as receitas governamentais, bem como sobre pobreza e desigualdade. Este relatório...
Maio de 2017
Artigo de jornal
In this article, the authors analyse the learning-by-exporting (LBE) hypothesis in the Mozambican context. Due to the presence of the ‘Born-Global’ phenomenon among exporters, they address the endogeneity introduced by self-selection, combining a generalised Blinder–Oaxaca...
Janeiro de 2017
Documento de trabalho
Em 1990, Moçambique era um dos mais pobres países do mundo, com uma pobreza estimada em 80% da sua população total. Depois da “guerra da desestabilização” em 1992 e particularmente desde o início do novo...
December 2017
Documento de trabalho
Under the current international economic conditions, where Asian countries are strong competitors in the manufacturing commodities, low-income countries like Mozambique could attempt to compete in industries without smokestacks.
Dezembro de 2016