Working paper
Contract farming in Mozambique

Cecilia Navarra

This paper analyses the implication of contract farming on gender inequalities in rural Mozambique. Contract farming is often considered one of the major tools of agribusiness development: it broadly includes those arrangements under which producers...

February 2018

Working paper
A 2015 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Mozambique

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 The SAM is built using unpublished Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) industry-level production accounts, commodity-level supply–demand balances and a supply matrix, together with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...

February 2018

Working paper
Educational inequality in Mozambique

Servaas van der Berg, Carlos da Maia and 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...

December 2017

Working paper
Does women’s empowerment affect the health of children?

Joseph Deutsch and 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...

December 2017

Working paper
Gender inequality in employment in Mozambique

Carlos Gradín and 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...

December 2017

Working paper
Living conditions and well-being

Andrew E. Clark and 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...

December 2017

Working paper
Investigating growing inequality in Mozambique

Carlos Gradín and 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...

December 2017

Working paper
The counting approach to multidimensional poverty

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...

December 2017

Working paper
Robustness tests for multidimensional poverty comparisons

Sam Jones

This paper provides practical tests for the robustness of multidimensional comparisons of well-being. Focussing on counting-type multidimensional poverty measures, I draw on the properties of positive Boolean threshold functions to prove that the space of...

December 2017

Working paper
Poverty Estimations and Profile for Mozambique (in Portuguese)

Finório Castigo and 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.

December 2017

Working paper
The impact of infrastructure shocks on agricultural markets

César Salazar and Sam Jones

Prior to 2009, there was no direct road connection between the southern regions of Mozambique—where the capital city is located—and the more agriculturally-productive central and northern regions. In this paper, we leverage the opening of...

November 2017

Working paper
Is inequality underestimated in Mozambique?

Channing Arndt And 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.

July 2017

Report
MOZMOD v1.0

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

Tax-benefit microsimulation modelling has become a valuable tool for countries to calculate the effects of policies on household income and government revenues, as well as on poverty and inequality. This report documents MOZMOD, the model...

May 2017

Working paper
Evolution of Poverty and Well-being in Mozambique (in Portuguese)

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...

January 2017

Journal article
Learning by Exporting

António S. Cruz, Carol Newman, John Rand and 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...

January 2017