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Exiting the fragility trapThose 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 political...
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Is inequality underestimated in Mozambique?Household 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. We address upper tier consumption...
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Institutional arrangements of outgrower sugarcane production in Southern AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Bioenergy in Southern Africa
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Economic impacts of developing a biofuel industry in MozambiquePart of Journal Special Issue Bioenergy in Southern Africa
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An analysis of school dropout in Mozambique, 2014–15The level of educational attainment in Mozambique is one of the lowest in the world and primary school completion rate is also very low, not reaching 40 per cent. Using data from the Mozambican Household Budget Survey 2014/15, we study (1) the...
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Investigating Growing Inequality in MozambiquePart of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries
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Women’s Empowerment and Child MalnutritionPart of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries
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Gender Inequality in Employment in MozambiquePart of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries
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The counting approach to multidimensional povertyPart of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries
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Contract Farming in MozambiquePart of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries
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Vulnerability to natural shocksMozambique 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. In...
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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. These contracts can take different forms, but in general are agreements under which producers commit to supply...
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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...
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Gas revenues will come and go in Mozambique – now is the time to think how to use them wisely
Mozambique is still an agriculture-based economy. Huge offshore gas fields have been discovered in the country and plans for gas projects are in the...
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Robustness tests for multidimensional poverty comparisonsThis 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...
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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. We show evidence that the gender gap has widened...
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