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This chapter aims to shed light on the nature of men’s and women’s enterprises in Africa, to assess the extent to which the constraints and obstacles faced by women and men entrepreneurs may differ, and to address whether the constraints and obstacles entrepreneurs face affect the productivity and performance of men’s and women’s businesses differently.We begin with a brief overview of gender in the economy, followed by a more detailed analysis of available Enterprise Survey data where key...

State Recognition and Democractization in Sub-Saharan Africaآ explores the link between liberal-style democratization and state recognition of traditional authority in Sub-Saharan Africa. Being critical and empirically grounded, the book explores the complex, often counter-balancing consequences of the involvement of traditional authority in the wave of democratization and liberal-style state-building that has rolled over sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade. It scrutinizes how, in...

This report examines the legal, administrative, and regulatory barriers that are preventing women in Kenya from contributing fully to the Kenyan economy. Building on the 2004 Foreign Investment and Advisory Service (FIAS) report, “Improving the Commercial Legal Framework and Removing Administrative and Regulatory Barriers to Investment,” this study looks at the bureaucratic barriers facing women in Kenya through a gender lens. The report makes specific recommendations to address...

This report presents findings from the Social Sector Performance Qualitative Study (SSPQS). The SSPQS was designed as a follow-up to the Social Sector Performance Surveys (SSPS), which were public expenditure tracking surveys undertaken in the primary and secondary education and government health and family planning systems between 2004 and 2006. In many respects, the SSPS findings were positive, documenting that systems of health and education service provision were functioning. While there...

In 2001, Indonesia embarked on a decentralization process that has had a dramatic impact on the local political landscape, especially in relation to taxation and administrative processes. Rules and procedures that govern licensing, registration, some taxes and user charges have largely been devolved to local governments. A significant number of new licenses and charges have been created at the local level, and most licenses are issued through a complicated system of procedures and agencies....

Market-oriented policy agendas have enjoyed a remarkable influence in Indonesia for almost four decades. Yet, attempts to impose these agendas in any systematic fashion have proven uncertain and inconclusive. This is not simply a case of successful resistance to reform by entrenched interests. Rather, the deepening of market capitalism and global integration has, in many instances, appeared to consolidate authoritarian politics and predatory economic relationships. Even in the wake of...

Information on the Swedish support to the private sector related to agriculture in Niassa, Mozambique 2003.

This paper brings together gender analysis, small scale enterprise analysis, and gender budget analysis in a development context. The paper demonstrates that gender matters not only to the ownership of an SME, but also to its most likely principal activity, the stock of the assets that it possesses, the labour that it utilizes, the costs that it faces, the revenues that it generates, and the profits that it earns. In particular, lower earnings for female-owned SMEs can be attributed to the...

This case study has attempted to show that the implementation of a policy mechanism like PSP in water and sanitation in a context like Niassa is highly unlikely to achieve the development impacts intended. It appears that the concept “PSP” itself is erroneous; it assumes that there is a private sector wishing to participate, and that public sector delivery is the key obstacle to private involvement. Equally erroneous is the idea that the private sector can just emerge from market mechanisms...

In mid-1998, a World Bank study grimly noted that "Indonesia is in deep economic crisis. A country that achieved decades of rapid growth, stability, and poverty reduction is now near economic collapse . . . no country in recent history, let alone one the size of Indonesia, has ever suffered such a dramatic reversal of fortune." There is bitter irony in Indonesia's fall from grace. Long hailed as a model of successful economic development, it was widely predicted to escape the fate of...

Despite significant problems with urban criminal gangs and highway robbers, Mozambique is a country at peace since 4 October, 1992. Under the auspices of the Italian religious congregation of Santo Egidio,4 Joaquim Alberto Chissano, president of the Republic and of the Frente de libertagao de Mozambique (FRELIMO), once the 'Marxist-Leninist' single-party of the country, and Afonso Dhlakama, president of the Resistencia national de Mogambique (RENAMO), the former guerrilla group and longtime...

The liberation of women is a fundamental necessity for the revolution, a guarantee of its continuity and a condition for its success (Machel, 1973). In his opening address to the first conference of the Mozambique Women's Organisation (OMM) in 1973, Samora Machel, President of Frelimo, affirmed that women's emancipation was an integral aspect of revolutionary struggle. In 1973 Frelimo was still a liberation front engaged in armed struggle against colonial rule. The northern part of...

Conclusion Of course, the political disgrace of Joana Simiao does not by itself solve the problem of Makua-Lomwe separatism, any more than the collapse of the Movement for a Free Mozambique has solved the larger problems of national reconstruction in Mozambique. But by now it should be clear to all that the only political movement qualified to achieve that goal is FRELIMO, who demonstrably are working for the interests of all Mozambicans and who enjoy the support of Mozambicans of all...

ProSAVANA project in Mozambique There are tremendous numbers of development projects all over the world. Mozambique is one of the least developed countries. A serious issue in Mozambique is food security. Even though 80 percent of the labor force in Mozambique engages in agriculture (USAID 2017), Mozambique’s farmland is tropical savanna that features very poor soil quality, and Mozambique does not have technologies to overcome this issue. As related to a food security issue, more than two...

Este artigo analisa o fenómeno da radicalização islâmica no Norte de Moçambique, explorando a complexidade das dinâmicas não só na origem do grupo dos Al-Shabaab como também na estrutura do próprio conflito e violência em Cabo Delgado. Os autores consideram que o fenómeno exige uma pesquisa multidisciplinar aprofunda­da que tome em conta uma multiplicidade de factores de ordem histórica, social, política, económica e religiosa. Acesso à versão inglesa aqui. ----- This research report is a...

Subnational Human Development Index - Mozambique

In Mozambique, health services are mostly provided by the public sector, and it is the responsibility of the Ministry of Health (MISAU) to enable the creation, planning and control of national health policies. The health sector is the third sector that absorbs most resources from the State Budget (OE), followed by the Education and Infrastructure sectors, according to the methodology presented in the budget documents related to the economic and social sectors. This sector is divided into...

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