| Description |
1 online resource (180 pages) |
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Mozambique's growth experience, macroeconomic policy mix, and institutions / Iyabo Masha and Doris C. Ross -- The role of megaprojects and their relationship to jobs and growth / Yi Xiong -- Infrastructure and public investment / Enrique Blanco Armas -- Mozambique's quest for inclusive growth / Victor Lledó -- Demographic factors and structure of employment / Keiichiro Inui -- Developing the agricultural sector / Jan Joost Nijhoff, Patrick Verissimo, Pedro Arlindo, and Aniceto Bila -- Mozambique's development corridors : platforms for shared prosperity / Ganesh Rasagam, Michael Engman, Tugba Gurcanlar, and Eneida Fernandes -- Financial inclusion in Mozambique / Felix F. Simione and Yuan Xiao -- Toward a Mozambican social protection floor / Yuan Xiao -- Fiscal challenges of the natural resource boom / Alex Segura-Ubiergo, Marcos Poplawski-Ribeiro, and Christine Richmond -- Natural resource wealth and public investment strategy : implications for growth and debt / Yi Xiong and Giovanni Melina -- Fostering competitiveness : how to avoid Dutch disease / Perry Perone |
| Summary |
This publication highlights Mozambique's remarkably strong growth over the two decades since the end of the civil war in 1992, as well as the major challenges that remain for the country to rise out of poverty and further its economic development. Chapters explore such topics as the role of megaprojects and their relationship to jobs and growth; infrastructure and public investment; Mozambique's quest for inclusive growth; developing the agricultural sector; and building a social protection floor |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Economic development -- Mozambique.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Inui, Keiichiro, author
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Lledó, Victor Duarte, author
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Masha, Iyabo, author
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Ross, Doris C., editor, author
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Segura-Ubiergo, Alex, author
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Thomas, Alun H. (Alun Huw), author
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Xiao, Yuan, author
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| ISBN |
1484358481 |
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9781484358481 |
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