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Horizontal and intersecting inequalities in Mozambique: 1997-2017

Santos, Ricardo; Egger, Eva-Maria; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2021

This study seeks to add to the research on inequality in least developed countries, namely in Mozambique, by measuring and mapping indicators of horizontal wealth inequality along geographic regions and ethnolinguistic identities. Using census data for 1997, 2007, and 2017, we identify possible...

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Simulating the effect on households' real consumption and poverty of the increase in prices that followed the 2015-16 economic crisis in Mozambique

Mambo, Félix; Paris, Yonesse; Salvucci, Vincenzo; … - 2018

Poverty declined substantially in Mozambique between 1996/97 and 2014/15. However, the recent economic crisis …, characterized by a significant increase in domestic prices, may have dragged several households into poverty. Using consumer price …' real consumption and poverty rate. We estimate that the national poverty rate may have risen to 55-60 per cent of the …

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The impact of COVID-19 on urban informal workers in Maputo

Anaç, Nilifer; Egger, Eva-Maria; Jones, Sam; Santos, … - 2022

Informal self-employed traders in developing countries are vulnerable to shocks as they often lack access to social insurance or formal finance. This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on these urban traders in the capital of Mozambique, Maputo. Drawing on longitudinal phone...

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Unequal expectations: Gender inequality in the salary expectations of university students

Gradín, Carlos; Mambo, Felix; Paris, Yonesse; Santos, … - 2020

Students' expectations about their future wages are established in the literature as relevant determinants of the choices made for education progression and, at the university level, for the area and course to be studied. In this paper, the first comparable analysis in sub-Saharan Africa, we...

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Africa's lockdown dilemma: High poverty and low trust

Egger, Eva-Maria; Jones, Sam; Justino, Patricia; … - 2020

The primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the population. However, there is growing unease that blindly replicating these policies might inflict irreparable damage to poor households and foment social unrest in...

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