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Good news on poverty and well-being in Mozambique – Fourth National Poverty Assessment

Inclusive growth in Mozambique – scaling-up research and capacity

  • Working paper
    The crowding out effect of public (internal) debt on private sector credit
    Mozambique Experience

    This paper, using monthly data between 1998 (December) -2019 (May) through the application of the Autoregressive Lag Model (ARDL) through two channels (price and quantity) using three equations w...

    Ivandra Vieira
  • Working paper
    Counting-based multidimensional poverty identification
    From deprivation weights to bundles

    In the widely used class of multidimensional poverty measures introduced by Alkire and Foster (2011), dimension-specific weights combined with a single cut-off parameter play a fundamental role i...

    Sam Jones
  • Working paper
    Agricultural development, trade, and income distribution
    A 2015 social accounting matrix multiplier decomposition approach for Mozambique

    This paper considers the impact of agriculture and international trade development on income distribution and economic activity in Mozambique. A social accounting matrix multiplier decomposition...

    Silvana Mondlane and Dirk van Seventer
  • Report
    Survey of School-to-Work Transition of University Students (in Portuguese)

    O presente relatório é baseado em um estudo sistemático longitudinal iniciado em 2017 e com a duração de ano e meio, finalizando em Setembro de 2019 e documenta...

    November 2019
  • Working paper
    What does it mean to be poor?
    Investigating the qualitative–quantitative divide in Mozambique

    This paper reflects on the relationship between economic (quantitative) and anthropological (qualitative) approaches to the analysis of poverty in developing countries. Drawing on detailed eviden...

    Sam Jones and Inge Tvedten
  • Working paper
    An analysis of school dropout in Mozambique, 2014–15

    The level of educational attainment in Mozambique is one of the lowest in the world and primary school completion rate is also very low, not reaching 40 per cent.

    Using data from the Mo...

    Félix Mambo, Maren Basso, Vincenzo Salvucci, Ricardo Santos
  • Working paper
    Vulnerability to natural shocks
    Assessing the short-term impact on consumption and poverty of the 2015 flood in Mozambique

    Mozambique is among the most disaster-prone countries in the world. A bigger than usual, and mostly unexpected, flood occurred in the central-northern region of the country in the first few month...

    Vincenzo Salvucci & Ricardo Santos
  • Working paper
    Beyond access to basic services
    Perspectives on the social determinants of health in Mozambique

    The social determinants of health have not been studied extensively in low-income contexts, where most studies focus on access to medical care.

    Alba Llop-Gironés and Sam Jones
  • Working paper
    Determinants of error in salary expectations by graduated students in Mozambique (in Portuguese)

    A educação é uma das principais formas de investimento no capital humano e como tal, tem efeitos sobre a produtividade, o rendimento dos indivíduos e da economia no ge...

    Edson Mazive & Gimelgo Xirinda
  • Working paper
    How does the demand for basic education in Mozambique respond to the quality of school supply (in Portuguese)

    Desde 1990, com a assinatura da Declaração sobre Educação para Todos, em Jomiten, que se incluiu oficialmente a preocupação com a qualidade entre os obje...

    Esmeralda Napaua
  • Working paper
    The role of skill in the perception of academic performance (in Portuguese)

    As habilidades cognitivas e analíticas, além de medidas de empregabilidade, são um dos principais factores usados para explicar o desempenho académico. A não co...

    Felix Mambo & Edson Mazive
  • Working paper
    The role of cognitive skills in the choice of the area of study (in Portuguese)

    Após o termino do ensino secundário todos os estudantes que pretendem continuar com os estudos enfrentam uma escolha sobre a área de estudo que devem seguir no ensino superio...

    Félix Mambo, Gimelgo Xirinda & Yonesse Paris
  • Working paper
    The determinants of labor demand (in Portuguese)
    A panel data analysis of the manufacturing sector in Mozambique

    Este artigo propõe uma análise dos determinantes da procura de trabalho no sector manufactureiro moçambicano. Com base num micro painel de 492 empresas para os anos de 2015 e...

    Gerson Baza
  • Working paper
    Determinants of HIV prevalence in Mozambique (in Portuguese)

    O Vírus de Imunodeficiência Humana é uma doença de preocupação mundial e a situação não é diferente se tratando de Moça...

    Isa Chiconela
  • Journal article
    What does it mean to be poor?
    Investigating the qualitative-quantitative divide in Mozambique

    Motivated by the siloed nature of much poverty research, as well as the challenge of finding inclusive operational definitions of poverty, this study reflects on the merits of seeking to reconcil...

    Sam Jones and Inge Tvedten
  • Working paper
    What is the state of the manufacturing sector in Mozambique?

    The latest firm survey of Mozambique, the Inquerito ás Indústrias Manufactureiras (IIM) 2017, draws a concerning picture of the manufacturing sector. However, it is not obvious whet...

    Peter Fisker & Soren Schou