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Worldwide, enterprises are affected by disasters such as cyclones and floods. Despite these negative impacts, many do not prepare for future disasters.
January 2025
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The Market System Resilience Index (MSRI) has been developed both to guide development practitioners in the process of conducting resilience assessments and to promote the inclusion of all relevant actors within a market system (Choptiany...
December 2024
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Development contracts have been at the center of policymakers' attention as an alternative for correcting market failures.
November 2024
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The transformation of subsistence agriculture into commercial agriculture is one of the strategic objectives of the Mozambican government.
November 2024
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After decades of war, Mozambique experienced sustained economic growth and poverty reduction from the mid-1990s. However, these positive dynamics started to revert from 2015. Meanwhile, inequality stagnated in the period 1996/97–2008/09, before markedly increasing afterwards.
September 2024
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THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | This study examines the impact of digital labor-market platforms on jobs outcomes using a randomized encouragement design embedded in a longitudinal survey of Mozambican technical-vocational college graduates.
May 2024
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Following the abolition of slavery, various forms of compulsory labour were adopted by colonial powers to develop their economies. This paper analyses the contemporary consequences of compulsory cotton production—a forced labour system that operated in...
April 2024
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We examine the long-term impact of forced labour on individual risk behaviour and economic decisions. For that, we focus on a policy of coercive cotton cultivation enforced in colonial Mozambique between 1926 and 1961.
April 2024
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Few countries have experienced as many political and economic changes as Mozambique. A vast and diverse country, it faced a particularly difficult start after a long period of colonial dominance followed by a deadly war...
March 2024
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High youth unemployment rates and long school-to-work transition times pose a threat to low-income countries’ sustainable growth prospects.
March 2024
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ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW Forced wage labour (FWL) in colonial-era Portuguese Africa came to encompass a majority of working age men and persisted until the early 1960s. On the basis of reconstructed financial records...
March 2024
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Budget reliability is the first pillar of Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA).In this study, we construct an expansion of the PEFA government response accuracy indicator and test its decomposition, with an application to the...
March 2024
Working paper
Using a unique panel survey of final-year undergraduates at six of the largest universities in Mozambique, we study the wage premium associated with completing an undergraduate degree. Conditional on a very rich set of controls...
January 2024
Working paper
Using publicly available databases and drawing on a wide range of indicators, this paper reviews the institutional performance of Mozambique across seven broad categories: rule of law and judicial independence; voice and freedom of expression/association...
January 2024
Journal article
We examine how returns to education have evolved in the context of post-conflict reconstruction and economic growth in Mozambique over the period 1996–2015. We show that private rates of return to education have declined at...
August 2023
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Biased beliefs about future labor-market earnings are commonplace. Based on a longitudinal survey of graduate work transitions in Mozambique, this study assesses the contribution of employment mismatches to a large positive gap between expected (ex...
August 2023