Inclusive growth in Mozambique | scaling-up research and capacity

Working paper

Economic impacts of developing a biofuel industry in Mozambique

Mozambique is one of the most promising African countries for producing biofuels and the national biofuel policy of 2009 identifies measures to incentivize biofuel production.

Faaiqa Hartley, Dirk van Seventer, Emílio Tostão and Channing Arndt

Journal article

Quantifying the contribution of a subpopulation to inequality an application to Mozambique

In this study, I quantify the contribution of a subpopulation to inequality.

Carlos Gradín

Journal article

Multidimensional poverty of children in Mozambique

We analyse the multidimensional wellbeing of children aged 0–17 in Mozambique and find that 46.3% can be considered multidimensionally poor.

Kristi Mahrt, Andrea Rossi, Vincenzo Salvucci and Finn Tarp

Journal article

Contract Farming in Mozambique

Implications for Gender Inequalities Within and Across Rural Households

This paper analyses the implications of contract farming for gender inequalities in rural Mozambique.

Cecilia Navarra

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Women’s Empowerment and Child Malnutrition

The Case of Mozambique

Using data from the 2011 Demographic and Health Survey in Mozambique this paper checks whether women empowerment has an impact on the nutritional status of children.

Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber

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Gender Inequality in Employment in Mozambique

We investigate the gender employment gap in the expanding non‐subsistence sector of the economy in Mozambique.

gender, employment, education, mozambique

Journal article

Investigating Growing Inequality in Mozambique

In this paper, we investigate the long‐term trend of consumption inequality in Mozambique.

Carlos Gradín and Finn Tarp

Journal article

Economic impacts of developing a biofuel industry in Mozambique

Mozambique is one of the most promising African countries for producing biofuels and the national biofuel policy of 2009 identifies measures to incentivize biofuel production.

Faaiqa Hartley, Dirk van Seventer, Emílio Tostão and Channing Arndt

Journal article

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 2015.

Vincenzo Salvucci and Ricardo Santos

Working paper

Unequal expectations

Gender inequality in salary expectations of university students

Students’ expectations about their future wages are established in the literature as relevant determinants of the choices made for education progression.

Carlos Gradín, Félix Mambo, Yonesse Paris and Ricardo Santos

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The energy transition in Asia

The role of liquefied natural gas and implications for East African producers

This study provides an overview of the use of natural gas and liquefied natural gas in Asia, both historic, current, and with an outlook for the future.

Etienne Romsom and Kathryn McPhail

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Africa’s lockdown dilemma

High poverty and low trust

The primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the population.

Eva-Maria Egger, Sam Jones, Patricia Justino, Ivan Manhique and Ricardo Santos

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Evolution of multidimensional poverty in crisis-ridden Mozambique

Mozambique experienced important reduction in the poverty rate until recently, before two major natural disasters hit and the country started suffering from a hidden debts.

Eva-Maria Egger, Vincenzo Salvucci and Finn Tarp

Report

Baseline survey on the school-to-work transition of technical and vocational education graduates in Mozambique

The research is a collaboration with the Labour Market Observatory of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security of Mozambique.

April 2020

Working paper

Misinformed, mismatched, or misled?

Explaining the gap between expected and realized graduate earnings in Mozambique

Inaccurate expectations of future wages are found in many contexts. Yet, existing studies overwhelmingly refer to high-income countries, and there is little evidence regarding the sources

Sam Jones, Ricardo Santos and Gimelgo Xirinda

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Evaluating foreign direct investment in Mozambique’s natural gas industry

An economy-wide perspective

The recent discovery of large fields of natural gas in Mozambique has led to great international interest and expectations of future gains

Silvana Mondlane & Dirk van Seventer