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Enterprise development: How are Mozambican manufacturing firms doing? Findings from 2017On 23 April 2018, the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique project will host a public forum to share the results of its report on the business landscape for Mozambican manufacturing firms. The event will shed light on the current challenges faced by micro...
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Contract farming in Mozambique: Implications on gender inequalities within and across rural householdsThis paper analyses the implication of contract farming on gender inequalities in rural Mozambique...
Contract farming Gender inequality women empowermentBlog
What would it take for Mozambique’s growth to be inclusive?
In late November 2017 more than 100 people gathered in Maputo, Mozambique, to participate in a joint reflection on poverty and inequality in the country...
Poverty and inequality MozambiqueWorking Paper
Educational inequality in MozambiqueIn very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above the rest...
Education Economic development InequalityWorking Paper
Does women’s empowerment affect the health of children?: The case of MozambiqueIn 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...
Alkire and Foster demographic and health survey Fuzzy approach to poverty measurementWorking Paper
The counting approach to multidimensional poverty: The case of four African countriesThis 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...
Counting approach Multidimensional poverty measurement MalawiWorking Paper
Investigating growing inequality in MozambiqueIn this paper, we investigate the long-term trend of consumption inequality in Mozambique...
Inequality Mozambique DecompositionWorking Paper
Gender inequality in employment in MozambiqueWe 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...
Gender Employment EducationWorking Paper
Robustness tests for multidimensional poverty comparisonsThis paper provides practical tests for the robustness of multidimensional comparisons of well-being...
Multidimensional poverty Pointwise dominance RobustnessNews
Tony Addison speaks on extractives industries and development during Mozambican MPs’ visit to Finnish parliamentUNU-WIDER Chief Economist-Deputy Director, Tony Addison , presented on the extractives industries and development during the exchange visit of the 5th Commission of the Parliament of Mozambique to Finland on 14 November 2017. Tony Addison presenting...
Extractives MozambiqueWorking Paper
Contracts between smallholders and private firms in Mozambique and their implications on food securityThe focus of this paper is the role played in rural contexts by contract farming agreements between smallholders and private investors...
Contract farming Food security MozambiqueWorking Paper
Exiting the fragility trap: Rethinking our approach to the world’s most fragile statesThose fragile states whose stagnation is so tenacious despite generous aid programs, and substantial and costly interventions, are stuck in a ‘fragility trap.’ Caught in a low-level equilibrium, trapped states appear to be in a perpetual ...
Fragile states Mali BangladeshWorking Paper
Is inequality underestimated in Mozambique?: Accounting for underreported consumptionHousehold budget surveys in sub-Saharan Africa are designed to facilitate poverty measurement and may fail to fully capture consumption in wealthy households. As a result, inequality is likely underestimated...
Consumption underreporting Household surveys InequalityPolicy Brief
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Learning by Exporting: The Case of Mozambican ManufacturingPart of Journal Special Issue Learning to Compete
Firm level analysis Learning spillovers Exports