Working Paper

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...

• Consumption underreporting
• Household survey
• Inequality

Working Paper

The 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...

• Contract farming
• Food security
• Mozambique

Blog

by Ricardo Santos December 2017

In late November 2017 more than 100 people gathered in Maputo, Mozambique, to participate in a joint reflection on poverty and inequality in the...

• Poverty and inequality
• Mozambique

Working Paper

This paper analyses the implication of contract farming on gender inequalities in rural Mozambique. Contract farming is often considered one of the major tools of agribusiness development: it broadly includes those arrangements under which producers...

• Contract farming
• Gender inequality
• Mozambique

Working Paper

Those 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...

• Fragile states
• Mali
• Bangladesh

Working Paper

This 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...

• Multidimensional poverty
• Pointwise dominance
• Mozambique

Working Paper

We 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...

• Gender
• Employment
• Education

Working Paper

In this paper, we investigate the long-term trend of consumption inequality in Mozambique. We show that an imbalanced growth path disproportionally benefited the better-off and caused increasing inequality, especially in more recent years, curbing...

• Inequality
• Mozambique
• Decomposition

Working Paper

This 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. We compare poverty measures such as the Alkire and Foster...

• Counting approach
• Multidimensional poverty measurement
• Malawi

Working Paper

In 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 information, and resources. We...

• Alkire and Foster
• Demographic and health survey
• Fuzzy approach to poverty measurement

Working Paper

In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of the population has access to higher...

• Education
• Economic development
• Inequality

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Learning to Compete

• Firm-level analysis
• Learning spillovers
• Exports

Working Paper

In this study we analyze the gender gap in agricultural productivity in Mozambique applying the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition approach on data from four agricultural surveys between 2002 and 2012. We find that female-headed households are on average...

• Gender gap
• Agricultural productivity
• Mozambique

Policy Brief

• Poverty
• Inequality
• Survey data

Working Paper

Mozambique is one of the most promising African countries for producing biofuels and the national biofuel policy of 2009 identifies measures to incentivize biofuel production. Demand for biofuels in the Southern African Development Community is...

• Biofuel
• Computable general equilibrium
• Food security

Working Paper

This study discusses the potential for expanding cultivation of biofuel feedstock in Mozambique from several angles. Taking the case of sugarcane, it explores the potential to expand production, through exploring both biophysical factors and patterns...

• Biofuel
• Mozambique
• Sugarcane

Policy Brief

• Poverty
• Multidimensional poverty
• Household survey

Working Paper

In this study we analyse the evolution of deprivation indicators and of a multidimensional poverty index using Mozambican census data for 1997 and 2007. We analyse deprivation levels according to eight different indicators reflecting housing...

• Multidimensional poverty
• Deprivation
• Mozambique