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Digital labour platforms as shock absorbers: Evidence from COVID-19Digital labour platforms have grown five-fold over the last decade, enabling significant expansion in gig work worldwide. We interrogate the criticism that these platforms tend to amplify aggregate economic shocks for registered users (workers)...
COVID-19 Digital labour platforms Labour marketSeminar
CEEG Seminar Series: Economic growth of Mozambique and its interaction with the environmentOn Wednesday 24 August 2022, Mônica Magaua, PhD candidate at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), will present her recent study on the economic growth in Mozambique and its interaction with the environment. The...
Seminar
CEEG Seminar Series: The role of mobile money in reducing economic inequality in MozambiqueOn Wednesday 10 August 2022, Moisés Siúta, PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town, will present his recent study on the role of mobile money in reducing economic inequality in Mozambique. The seminar is part of the CEEG Seminar...
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What drove the profitability of colonial firms?: Labour coercion and trade preferences on the Sena Sugar Estates (1920–74)The magnitude of returns to colonial-era investments in Africa has been addressed in an extensive literature, as have the nature and legacies of extractive colonial institutions...
Mozambique Sugarcane Forced labourWorking Paper
Labour market effects of digital matching platforms: Experimental evidence from sub-Saharan AfricaCan digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in either formal or informal labour markets?...
Digital labour platforms Job search Search frictionsJournal Article
The impact of COVID-19 on consumption poverty in MozambiqueThis study assesses the impact of COVID-19 on household consumption poverty. To predict changes in income and the associated effects on poverty, we rely on existing estimated macroeconomic impacts...
COVID-19 Poverty InequalityJournal Article
The macroeconomic impact of COVID-19 in Mozambique: A social accounting matrix approachThis study assesses the economic costs of COVID-19 and the state of emergency implemented by the Government of Mozambique. We use a social accounting matrix multiplier analysis to estimate the effects of the pandemic on the economy...
COVID-19 Multiplier analysis Social Accounting MatrixWorking Paper
Health and ethnic inequalities in Mozambique with special reference to leprosyThe subject of this paper is health and ethnic inequalities in Mozambique, with special reference to leprosy...
Health Ethnic inequality MozambiqueSeminar
Economic development and institutions – perceptions and bottlenecksOn 15 March 2022, the Faculty of Economics of the University of Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) organizes an event launching a cycle of debates on institutional performance and economic development in Mozambique. The event, entitled ‘ Economic...
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Impact of teacher content knowledge on student achievement in a low-income countryThis paper estimates the causal impact of teacher content knowledge on student achievement in Mozambique, a low-income country where a large share of fourth-graders fail to meet the minimum requirements of literacy and numeracy...
Education quality Mozambique EducationSeminar
CEEG Seminar Series: The economic recession in MozambiqueOn Wednesday 23 February 2022, Michael Sambo, Researcher at IESE , will present a recent study entitled The economic recession in Mozambique: Was it COVID-19? – A look from the external sector . The seminar is part of the CEEG Seminar Series...
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SOUTHMOD work presented at the Mozambique Social Protection WeekThe Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Action ( MGCAS ) organises a Social Protection theme week in Mozambique 11-15 October 2021. During the week, on 15 October, The Mozambican Ministry of Economy and Finance ( MEF ) with Internation Labour...
News
Press Release | New UN study reveals limited impact of tax and social protection policies in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
Africa SOUTHMOD Tax-benefit microsimulation Journal Article
Beyond access to basic services: perspectives on social health determinants of MozambiqueA wide range of evidence shows systematic differences in health status among social groups, which are associated with unequal exposure to and distribution of the social determinants of health (SDH)...
Self-assessed health Health equity MozambiqueWorking Paper
The saga and limits of public financial management: The Mozambican caseAt independence in 1975, the Frelimo government took over public administration from the colonial system and started to transform it...
Public finance management Mozambique Reforms