First paragraph of Chapter: In recent decades, Mozambique has undergone enormous political and economic transformations. Once a colony of Portugal, the country moved to a phase of socialism after gaining independence in 1975, and then from 1986 the government initiated a program of economic...

One of every two people in Sub-Saharan Africa survives on less than $1.25 a day. That proportion has changed little over the past three decades, unlike in Asia and elsewhere, so the region's share of global poverty has risen from one-tenth to almost one-third since 1980. About 70 percent of...