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The Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Poverty Diagnostic in Mozambique is part of a global initiative to … improve the evidence base on the linkages between WASH, human development, and poverty. The Diagnostic provides a detailed …
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Although Mozambique has considerable agricultural potential, rural poverty remains extremely high. This paper examines … the extent to which global and domestic price distortions affect agricultural production and national poverty. The author … results indicate that agriculture is adversely affected by current trade distortions due to policies in the rest of the world …
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translated into modest poverty reduction. Not only poverty fell at slower pace than expected but the gains in income and … poverty rates than rural provinces, particularly those in the central and northern parts of the country. Three factors … groups; (ii) low productivity and market-based growth in agriculture; and (iii) high vulnerability to weather shocks. Growth …
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high-poverty areas of rural Mozambique. Preschools were randomly assigned to 30 of 76 eligible communities. Using a panel …
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The Government of Mozambique is seeking to achieve its strategic objectives and targets for socio-economic and political development by intensifying the implementation of its five-year government plan (PQG). It is also taking preparatory steps for the next phase of its PQG, which coincide with...
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. Chapter 1 outlines the main macro and sectoral challenges which underpins the rationale for carrying out the agriculture … results-focused agriculture expenditure action plan …
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Almost a decade after large land-based investment for agriculture increased sharply, opinions on its impact continue to …
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Mozambique, the only Lusophone country covered in the agribusiness indicators initiative, has had a turbulent history since independence. Civil unrest over some 20 years and frequent drought in southern Mozambique, coupled with floods near the many waterways that transect the country (mainly...
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This paper analyzes the poverty and inequality implications of removing agricultural and non-agricultural price … distortions in the domestic market of the Philippines and abroad. Liberalization in the rest of the world is poverty and … inequality reducing, whereas full domestic liberalization increases national poverty and inequality. Poverty declines while …
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ending poverty and hunger, boosting shared prosperity through more and better jobs, and better stewarding the world's natural …
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