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António S. Cruz, Fausto Mafambissa, Mónica Magáua...

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 The SAM is built using unpublished Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) industry-level production accounts, commodity-level supply–demand balances and a supply matrix, together with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...
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Servaas van der Berg, Carlos da Maia e Cobus...

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...
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Joseph Deutsch e Jacques Silber

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...
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Carlos Gradín e Finn Tarp

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...
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Maimuna Ibraimo e Vincenzo Salvucci

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
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Andrew E. Clark e Conchita D'Ambrosio

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...
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Carlos Gradín e Finn Tarp

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...
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Valérie Bérenger

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...
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Finório Castigo e Vincenzo Salvucci

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.
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Channing Arndt e Kristi Mahrt

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.
Relatório

Vanda Castelo, Finório Castigo, António S. Cruz...

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...
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António S. Cruz, Carol Newman, John Rand e Finn...

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...
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Vincenzo Salvucci, Channing Arndt, Finório Castigo...

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...
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António S. Cruz e Fausto J. Mafambissa

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.