World Bank2012-06-182012-06-182005-09https://hdl.handle.net/10986/8324Mozambique has staged a dramatic recovery from the damage of the civil war, improving infrastructure nearly to pre-war levels; reducing poverty from 69 to 54 percent; growing the economy by 8 percent annually between 1996 and 2003; expanding the agricultural, tourism construction and manufacturing sectors; and attracting mega-projects in aluminum smelting, natural gas, and titanium mining, and this tripling exports. Another factor which was a precondition for all of the above is the fact that the country was successful in bringing about reconciliation, ending the civil war, and in managing potential conflicts since that time. Mozambique has just had its third general and presidential election. Nevertheless the country remains poor, infrastructure is inadequate, there are serious unmet education and health needs, and poverty rates remain high. This Memorandum examines the growth-poverty linkage, using a wide variety of data sources, including the recently completed national household survey (2002/3). It has sought to understand the sources of growth in the recent past, to evaluate the prospects for growth in the next decade, to examine the likely implications for poverty, and to outline the policies that will be needed to achieve further growth and poverty reduction. The Country Economic Memorandum also examines the relevance of natural resource management to growth and poverty objectives.en-USCC BY 3.0 IGOABSOLUTE POVERTYACCESS TO SERVICESAGRICULTURAL ECONOMYAGRICULTURAL EXPORTSAGRICULTURAL EXTENSIONAGRICULTURAL OUTPUTAGRICULTURAL SECTORAGRICULTURAL WORKERSAGRICULTUREANNUAL GROWTHAVERAGE GROWTHBANK LOANSBANKING CRISISCAPITAL ACCUMULATIONCASH INCOMECIVIL SOCIETYCLEAN WATERCOMPETITIVENESSCONFLICTCONSUMPTION GROWTHCROP PRODUCTIONCROP YIELDSDATA SOURCESDEVELOPMENT GOALSDEVELOPMENT STRATEGYECONOMIC COOPERATIONECONOMIC GROWTHECONOMIC MANAGEMENTECONOMIC MEMORANDUMEMPLOYMENT INCOMEEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIESEMPLOYMENT STATUSEQUIVALENT CONSUMPTIONEXCHANGE RATEEXTERNAL DEBTEXTERNAL TRADEFARM ACTIVITIESFARM INCOMEFARMERSFINANCIAL SECTORFOOD CROPFOOD POLICYFOOD POLICY RESEARCHFOOD QUALITYFOREIGN EXCHANGEGDPGDP PER CAPITAGOVERNMENT EXPENDITURESGROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTGROWTH ELASTICITYGROWTH INCIDENCEGROWTH PROCESSGROWTH PROSPECTSGROWTH RATEGROWTH RATESHEALTH STATUSHEALTH SURVEYSHIGH GROWTHHIGH GROWTH RATEHOUSEHOLD COMPOSITIONHOUSEHOLD HEADHOUSEHOLD SURVEYHOUSEHOLD SURVEYSHUMAN CAPITALIMPORT TARIFFSIMPROVED HEALTHINCOMEINCREASED ACCESSINCREASED EXPORTSINEQUALITYINFLATIONINFORMAL EMPLOYMENTINFORMAL SECTORINSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENTINVESTMENT CLIMATELABOR FORCELABOR MARKETLIBERALIZATIONLONG TERMLOWERING TRADE BARRIERSMACRO STABILITYMACROECONOMIC MANAGEMENTMACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCEMACROECONOMIC STABILITYMEAN CONSUMPTIONMEDIUM TERMMONETARY POLICYNATIONAL ACCOUNTSNATIONAL INCOMENATIONAL POLICYNATURAL RESOURCESPER CAPITA GROWTHPER CAPITA INCOMEPER CAPITA INCOMESPOLICY RESEARCHPOORPOOR COUNTRIESPOVERTY CHANGESPOVERTY HEADCOUNTPOVERTY LINEPOVERTY MEASURESPOVERTY RATEPOVERTY RATESPOVERTY REDUCTIONPOVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAMSPOVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGYPOVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPERPOVERTY TRENDSPRICE STABILITYPRIMARY SCHOOLPRIVATE TRANSFERSPRO-POORPRO-POOR GROWTHPRODUCTIVITY GROWTHPUBLIC EXPENDITURESPUBLIC WORKSPURCHASING POWERPURCHASING POWER PARITYQUALITY CONTROLREAL INTEREST RATESREAL TERMSREDUCED POVERTYREDUCING POVERTYREMITTANCESREMOTE AREASRESEARCH INSTITUTERESERVE REQUIREMENTSRURALRURAL AREASRURAL DEVELOPMENTRURAL PHENOMENONRURAL POVERTYSECTOR EMPLOYMENTSOCIAL INDICATORSSTATE ENTERPRISESSTRUCTURAL CHANGESTRUCTURAL REFORMSSUB-SAHARAN AFRICATOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITYTRADE POLICYURBAN AREASVALUE ADDEDWAGESWARWorld Bank10.1596/8324