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Workforce and leadership characteristics in Mozambican manufacturing
The business environment of Mozambican manufacturing firms
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Weak supply chains, both in quantity and quality, impose logistical challenges on Mozambican manufacturing firms. The Mozambican regulatory and legal environment continue to be perceived as a hurdle...
Economic growth Regulatory FrameworkPolicy Brief
Firms that survived the economic downturn adopted restrictive human resources management, reducing the workforce and making it more flexible, which in turn made employment more vulnerable...
Economic growth Leadership charasteristics EntrepreneurshipBlog
Information asymmetries in extractive industries: What can be done?
In the second part of this blog, Alan R. Roe discusses what is known about the informational failures that pose challenges for governments in projecting revenues from extractive industries. Read the first part here ...
Extractive industries Government revenueBlog
Forecasting revenues from extractive industries: Information asymmetries and other disadvantages of host governments In the first part of this blog, Alan R. Roe writes about the difficulties governments face in predicting revenues from extractive industries. Read part two here ...
Extractive industries Government revenueBlog
Three key findings on child poverty for Mozambican policy makers
Mozambique has experienced rapid growth and reductions in poverty over the last twenty years. The latest poverty report showed a decline in the poverty rate of about 25 percentage points over the period 1996/97-2014/15, from about 70% to 46%...
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Under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) remarkably progress has been made on health issues...
Health SDG3 Universal Health CoveragePolicy Brief
The importance of reducing poverty is universally acknowledged, and represents an important part of the Sustainable Development Goals. However, the appropriate measurement of poverty and wellbeing remains complex and controversial...
Poverty Poverty measurement Poverty assessmentPolicy Brief
The death of aid has often been declared, and private capital flows as well as earnings from natural resources now far exceed official development assistance (ODA) in aggregate...
Foreign aid Macroeconomics Tax revenuePolicy Brief
Development aid by itself cannot ‘save the planet’. Yet, development aid and institutions have the potential to remain important catalytic actors in achieving developmental and global environmental objectives...
Foreign aid Climate change EnvironmentBlog
Mini-documentary: Mozambique - Scaling up research and capacity
In the 1980s Mozambique was one of the poorest countries in the world. Since then, the country has recovered from civil war to grow by an average of 7% each year...
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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 country...
Poverty and inequality MozambiquePolicy Brief
In broad terms, the climate challenge is relatively straightforward. Global average temperatures are rising because of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases...
Energy Development Climate changeBlog
Income generation and malaria in UgandaSeveral large-scale efforts have been made to combat malaria in the last decade under the Millennium Development Goals, and while these have led to a rapid decline in cases, malaria continues to exact a heavy toll on sub-Saharan Africa, both in terms...
Administrative law Agriculture Economic developmentBlog
A WIDER perspective on migration
While many WIDER Development Conferences emerge from ongoing projects, our latest conference in October — ‘ Migration and mobility: New frontiers for research and policy ’ — offered a different opportunity: to focus attention ...
Migration RefugeesBlog
Peer influence and human capital accumulation: Evidence from Delhi University collegesCollege is an important milestone in life that is believed to develop several aspects of an individual's human capital, broadly defined to include both cognitive and socio-emotional traits...
Cognitive attainment Behaviour PersonalityPolicy Brief
Industrial policy has finally moved away from the arid debate on ‘picking winners’ versus ‘levelling the playing field’...
Industrialization Industrial policy Structural transformation