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Evidence matters for inclusive growth policy: Reflections from the annual conference of the Inclusive growth in Mozambique programme
Like many developing countries, Mozambique is struggling with problems of poverty, inequality, low productivity, unemployment, and low institutional capacity. The COVID-19 pandemic is now adding to these challenges...
Inclusive growth MozambiqueJournal Article
Vulnerability to natural shocks: Assessing the short-term impact on consumption and poverty of the 2015 flood in MozambiqueMozambique 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 months of 2015, causing huge damage to infrastructures...
Welfare impact Flood Difference-in-differenceWorking Paper
Economic complexity and structural transformation: the case of MozambiqueMozambique is among the world’s least complex economies. By systematically accounting for both supply- and demand-side factors, we identify new products and sectors that can help to diversify and upgrade its economy...
economic complexity Trade ExportsWorking Paper
Updating great expectations: The effect of peer salary information on own-earnings forecastsHow jobseekers set their earnings expectations is central to job search models...
wage expectation information heuristicsWorking Paper
Natural resources, institutions, and economic transformation in MozambiqueIn the light of Mozambique’s natural resources boom—especially its large-scale investments in mining, oil, and gas—this paper analyses the prospects for the extractive industries to contribute to economic transformation from an inst...
Economic transformation Extractive industries InstitutionsWorking Paper
Rule of law and judicial independenceThe rule of law and judicial independence are a project yet to be achieved in Mozambique...
Economic development Rule of law judicial independenceWorking Paper
Economic development and institutions in Mozambique: Factors affecting public financial managementMozambique has achieved incipient but still fragile socio-economic development since 1975. The public financial management system has been reformed and improved, but its performance has weakened since 2013...
Democracy growth strategy Institutional economicsWorking Paper
Decentralization reforms in Mozambique: The role of institutions in the definition of resultsWith the introduction of the economic reforms in the late 1980s, the opening up of the political arena and the end of the civil war in the early 1990s, the decentralization process began in Mozambique...
Decentralization decentralized governance InstitutionsWorking Paper
Health, development, and institutional factors: The Mozambique caseThe central aim of this text is to show the impact institutions have on the performance of the health sector in Mozambique...
State traditional medicine MozambiqueWorking Paper
Character or context: What explains behavioural dishonesty in low-income countries?We run a lab-in-the-field experiment with 1,060 university students in Mozambique to examine the correlates of behavioural dishonesty, distinguishing between intrinsic and extrinsic factors...
cheating dice game BehaviourResearch Brief
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Evolution of multidimensional poverty in crisis-ridden MozambiqueMozambique experienced important reduction in the poverty rate until recently, before two major natural disasters hit and the country started suffering from a hidden debt scandal with associated economic slowdown...
first-order dominance Mozambique Multidimensional povertyNews
Baseline survey reveals challenges faced by vocational students in Mozambique
Mozambique Education Labour market Report
Baseline survey on the school-to-work transition of technical and vocational education graduates in Mozambique (in Portuguese): Inquérito de base à transição ensino-emprego dos graduados do ensino técnico-profissional em MoçambiqueA investigação aqui apresentada foi planeada e implementada por pesquisadores do United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), do Grupo de Pesquisa em Economia do Desenvolvimento (DERG) da Uni...
Mozambique education policy EmploymentReport
Baseline survey on the school-to-work transition of technical and vocational education graduates in Mozambique: Inquérito de base à transição ensino-emprego dos graduados do ensino técnico-profissional em MoçambiqueThe research detailed herein was planned and implemented by researchers at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), the Develop-ment Economics Research Group (DERG) at the University of Copenhagen ...
Mozambique education policy EmploymentBlog
The five criteria low income countries must have in place for lockdowns to workAs the COVID-19 virus has spread across the globe, developing countries are starting to enact many of the same policies used in China, Europe, and North America to contain the virus. But are these policies appropriate in low income contexts?...
COVID-19 lockdown Mozambique