Facing the Development Challenge in Mozambique: An Economywide perspective

Finn Tarp, Henning Tarp Jensen, Channing Arndt, Sherman Robinson and Rasmus Herlberg

No 16541, Research Reports from CGIAR, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: This study responds to some of Mozambique's basic development challenges and provides qualitative and quantitative insights for policymaking from an economywide perspective. The report highlights the importance of agricultural development showing agriculture's large sectoral multiplier effects and that applying scarce capital to agriculture is generally more effective than applying it to industry and services. A novel CGE model is developed and used in a series of analyses focused on the impact and design of economic policy. Issues addressed are aid dependency, biases in price incentives facing the agriculture sector, improvement in agricultural technology and marketing margins, risk-reducing behavior and gender roles in agricultural production, and food aid distribution. The study also provides a future perspective and analyzes the Mozambican economy using dynamic macroeconomic modeling techniques, demonstrating that sophisticated analytical tools can be of significant value, even in "data-poor" situations.

Keywords: International; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 189
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.16541

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