Mozambique
Peer review and public-private partnerships hinge on transparency. Transparency is about commonly shared knowledge about the economy, its performance, and the way policy influences it. The Composite Indicator of Economic Activity in Mozambique (ICAE) is a tool of knowledge whose construction is based on an established methodology in the construction of business cycles indicators amongst countries that have such tradition. Its construction was primarily motivated by the need to enhance constructive dialogue between domestic private and public sector agents in Mozambique, by providing them with a common tool of knowledge about the long-term and short- to medium-term performance and prospects of the economy, and how this relates to policy. Due to its comparability with similar indicators that exist for the country economies of key Mozambique foreign private and public sector partners, the ICAE is also a potentially useful tool of constructive peer review, within the NEPAD framework ...
South Africa: Inbound tourism: International arrivals and receipts appears in OECD Tourism Trends and Policies 2010.
This strategic foresight report assesses the interaction between demographics, economic development, climate change and social protection in six countries in East Africa between now and 2065: Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The report combines population projections with trends in health, urbanisation, migration and climate change and identifies the implications for economic development and poverty. It concludes by identifying policies to address seven grand challenges for social protection planners in national governments and donor agencies which emerge from the projections. These include: eliminating extreme poverty; extending social insurance in a context of high informality; the rapid growth of the working-age population, in particular the youth; adapting social protection to urban settings; protecting the poor from the effects of climate change; harnessing a demographic dividend; and substantially increasing funding for social protection.
Mozambique’s economy has long benefited from investment in aluminium and other extractive industries; in addition, recent discovery of significant gas reserves could turn our country into one of the world’s largest Liquid Natural Gas producers. But we are fully aware that resources alone will not guarantee growth, employment and sustainability. We need substantial investments to add value to the resources we have not only in the extractive industries but also in tourism, agriculture, and infrastructure – to name just a few critical sectors.
Twenty years have passed since Mozambique emerged from civil war, in 1992. Over this period the country has successfully made the transition towards a multiparty political system and market-based economy, putting in place an increasing number of measures to stimulate the private sector and improve the business climate.
Mozambique has made marked progress in recent decades in terms of liberalization of its economy and improvement of its investment framework. This overview first provides a short description of the macroeconomic environment and investment policy context in Mozambique, taking stock of Mozambique’s fundamental investment, privatization and business reforms. Second, it gives an overview of investment and growth trends over the last two decades. This helps shed light on dominant policy challenges faced by Mozambique in attracting investment across all economic sectors. Among other obstacles, many aspects of the investment policy framework remain insufficiently transparent and do not provide effective safeguards of policy predictability for both foreign and domestic investors. After years of successfully attracting investment into capital-intensive mega-projects, Mozambique now needs to diversify in more labour-intensive sectors such as agriculture and tourism, and to also increase business linkages in the mega-project sectors themselves. In order to facilitate this, many large infrastructure gaps will need to be addressed. Finally, this overview chapter provides recommendations for policy options to prioritise. These recommendations should assist the government of Mozambique in improving the general investment climate, notably so as to enhance its diversification strategy and stimulate greater investment in infrastructure.
This dataset stems from the database presented in the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2013-2022. The table contains projections on the agriculture market and commodities such as cereals, oilseeds, diary products, cotton and more. It includes statistics on the trade side including data on production, prices, trade balance, ending stocks, consumption, transformation, etc. For most of the commodity markets analysed in the Agricultural Outlook, domestic and international commodity prices are also available. In most cases the data go back to 1970 and cover up to the latest year of projection (currently 2022).
OECD's comprehensive review of investment policy in Mozambique. After a country overview, this report examines investment policy, investment promotion and facilitation as well as infrastructure in Mozambique.
This chapter presents Mozambique’s taxpayer education programme. It first gives an overview of the whole programme and its objectives, followed by a focus on one specific element, the “Together We Make Mozambique” campaign. It subsequently looks at the impacts and lessons learnt of the initiative, followed by an outlook on next steps.
Mozambique: Stock of Total External Debt (percentage of GDP) and Debt Service (percentage of exports of goods and services) appears in African Economic Outlook 2009.
Mozambique: Real GDP Growth and Per Capita GDP (USD/PPP at current prices) appears in African Economic Outlook 2009.
Mozambique is undergoing a number of major reforms in the public sector including reform of the public finance management system. This article describes the environment before the budget reforms, highlighting the weaknesses in budget planning and preparation, budget implementation and the governance framework including the weak oversight role of Parliament. A legal framework was put in place as a first step. Underlying systemic problems were addressed to allow clearer linkages between budgets and service delivery. Then budget planning reforms were introduced. The article discusses the nature of the major technical reforms, considers the governance framework and provides an assessment of the effectiveness of the reforms.