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Inclusive growth in Mozambique – scaling-up research and capacity

  • Journal article
    Infrastructure improvements and maize market integration
    Bridging the Zambezi in Mozambique

    Historically, transport infrastructure connecting the most agriculturally productive areas of Mozambique and the richer southern region has been poor.

    Sam Jones and Cézar Salazar
  • Working paper
    Local governance quality and law compliance
    The case of Mozambican firms

    Using panel data of manufacturing enterprises in Mozambique between 2012 and 2017, we investigate how changes in perceived quality of governance are related to firms’ law compliance. Contro...

    Hanna Berkel, Christian Estmann and John Rand
  • Working paper
    Informed participation: the effects of information treatment on panel non-response

    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...

    Ricardo Santos and Sam Jones
  • Working paper
    The saga and limits of public financial management
    The Mozambican case

    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 degre...

    António S. Cruz, Ines A. Ferreira, Johnny Flentø, Finn Tarp and Mariam Umarji
  • Working paper
    The relative neglect of agriculture in Mozambique

    This paper explores agricultural performance of Mozambique, its institutional weaknesses, and the underlying factors that underpin an unsatisfactory performance during many decades.

    João Z. Carrilho, Ines A. Ferreira, Rui N. Ribeiro and Finn Tarp
  • Journal article
    Local content and the prospects for economic diversification in Mozambique

    This article is part of the Oxford University Press book Mining for Change: Natural Resources and Industry in Africa (2020)

    E. Dietsche and A. Esteves
  • Journal article
    The construction sector in Mozambique

    This article is part of the Oxford University Press book Mining for Change: Natural Resources and Industry in Africa (2020)

    A. Cruz, F. Fernandes, F. Mafambissa and F. Pereira
  • Journal article
    Mozambique – Bust before boom
    Reflections on investment surges and new gas

    This article is part of the Oxford University Press book Mining for Change: Natural Resources and Industry in Africa (2020)

    Alan Roe
  • Journal article
    Introduction to Special Issue on: ‘Inequalities in the Least Developed Countries – Some Lessons from Africa’

    This special issue comprises six papers analysing different dimensions of inequalities in African countries. Three papers deal with the trend in inequality in consumption in Mozambique, with mult...

    Carlos Gradín and Finn Tarp
  • Journal article
    Living Conditions and Basic Needs
    Evidence from African Countries

    The authors use five rounds of Afrobarometer data covering more than 100,000 individuals over the 2004–2016 period to explore the link between individual self‐reported measures of living co...

    Andrew E. Clark and Conchita D'Ambrosio
  • Journal article
    The counting approach to multidimensional poverty
    The case of four African countries

    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.

    Valérie Bérenger
  • Journal article
    Policy and trade issues for a future regional biofuels market in Southern Africa

    This paper reviews the domestic political and legislative context surround biofuels initiatives to highlight what opportunities exist for establishing a biofuels trade network between South Afric...

    Giles Henley and Taku Fundira
  • Journal article
    Climate change and developing country growth
    The cases of Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia

    The authors consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the economic interests of developing countries to 2050.

    Channing Arndt, Paul S. Chinowsky, Charles Fant, Sergey Paltsev, C. Adam Schlosser, Kenneth Strzepek, Finn Tarp and James Thurlow
  • Journal article
    Learning by Exporting
    The Case of Mozambican Manufacturing

    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, th...

    António S. Cruz, Carol Newman, John Rand and Finn Tarp
  • Journal article
    Ordinal Bivariate Inequality
    Concepts and Application to Child Deprivation in Mozambique

    This paper introduces a concept of inequality comparisons with ordinal bivariate categorical data. In our model, one population is more unequal than another when they have common arithmetic media...

    Christoffer Sonne-Schmidt, Finn Tarp and Lars Peter Østerdal
  • 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...

    Edson Mazive, Gerson Baza, Gimelgo Xirinda, Ivan Manhique, Jorge Mouco and Silvestre Matola