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O estudo conclui que as IFI aproveitaram este momento de crise para acelerar a financeirização do desenvolvimento; porém, também ilustra a resistência tanto do Estado como da sociedade civil. Se essas formas de resistência podem ou não contribuir para a construção de um Estado desenvolvido robusto depende do poder dos movimentos sociais globalizados para reaver o controlo e sacá-lo das garras do capitalismo financeiro. A primeira secção situa as respostas políticas do FMI e do Banco Mundial...

Based on the concept of limited and open access orders (LAO/OAO), this paper explains what appears to be a paradox: how was it possible that a former civil war country, Mozambique, which had been extremely successful in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) and which the International Monetary Fund praised as a great Sub-Sahara African success story in 2007, only a few years later found itself on the brink of a new civil war? We argue that the destabilization of the country was the...

Este é o nono relatório de reconciliação dos pagamentos efectuados pelas empresas que operam na indústria extractiva e os recebimentos do Estado. Foram reconciliadas 97% das receitas tributárias provenientes da indústria extractiva. As diferenças apuradas entre os pagamentos das empresas e os recebimentos do Estado correspondem a 0,17% dos montantes confirmados pelo Estado em 2019.

NJ Ayuk discusses the Mozambique LNG project.

Mozambique’s debt remains in distress, which is unchanged from the previous DSA published in June 2019. Consideringthat, to a large extent, future borrowingand governmentguarantees reflect state participation in the sizable liquified natural gas (LNG) development, debt is deemed sustainable in a forward-looking sense. Participation in the recently announced G20 initiative would provide debt service relief in the near term, thus flattening the projected sharp deterioration in debt liquidity...

Considerando a estrutura económica de Moçambique e analisando a estrutura do IDE que aflui a Moçambique, este artigo argumenta que o aumento de IDE na economia não é necessariamente a condição para o desenvolvimento se não for maximizada a captação e utilização das receitas. Embora a lógica de fomento do desenvolvimento económico através do investimento adoptada pelo Governo de Moçambique no PQG 2015-2019 tenha um embasamento teórico, o seu enquadramento é simplista e pouco considera a...

This is the ninth report reconciling payments made by companies operating in the extractive industry and receipts from the State. 97% of tax revenues from the extractive industry were reconciled. The differences between the payments by the companies and the receipts from the State correspond to 0,17% of the amounts confirmed by the State in 2019

Este artigo surge na sequência de um artigo anterior onde se considerou em termos gerais muitas das questões que Moçambique enfrenta hoje em dia na gestão dos seus novos recursos extractivos. Em primeiro lugar descreve-se o pico de investimento já desencadeado pelas novas descobertas de gás em Moçambique. Depois apresenta-se em resumo alguma da literatura mais recente sobre os efeitos desses picos noutros países e contextos. De seguida analisam-se os principais aspectos dos resultados...

This paper is a sequel to an earlier paper that looked in broad terms at many of the issues that Mozambique faces today in managing its new extractive resources. The paper first describes the investment surge that has already been prompted by new gas discoveries in Mozambique. It then summarizes some of the more recent literature that has examined the effects of such surges in other country contexts. It next examines the main aspects of the disappointing economic outcomes that have so far...

In northern Mozambique, villagers were promised jobs to replace land taken for forestry. Five years later, they’re still waiting, discovers Nils Adler.

Research Findings - It is unlikely that the extractives sector can any time soon be used to finance visionary transformation strategies aimed at achieving economic diversification. Due to the country’s fiscal situation and delays in developing the offshore natural gas sector, it seems that extractives will not provide additional revenues for at least another decade, if not longer. If the fiscal crisis results in the further deterioration of the provision of public goods and services, the...

After becoming an independent State, Mozambique was plagued by a long and severe civil war, which ultimately resulted in an economic collapse led by the lack of investment, nationalization of privately owned industries, as well as widespread food shortage. The 1992 peace agreement marked the transition from civil war to peace, culminating in the country’s first democratic elections of 1994 and the emergence of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) as the dominant political...

This chapter explores these broader processes from the perspective of linkage creation in Mozambique related to mega-projects in natural resource extraction and development from a political economy perspective. From a resource fairness perspective, linkage creation is essential as it allows for a more fair distribution of opportunities for local firms to gain from large-scale natural resource investments and for learning and spillover effects to other parts of the economy. In a longer term...

O gás de Moçambique pode ser usado para promover industrialização e desenvolvimento rural desde que, a partir de agora, sejam feitas as opções correctas. As actuais prioridades vão para os megaprojectos baseados na exportação, que prometem altos rendimentos mas que, tal como os megaprojectos anteriores, fazem pouco pela criação de empregos ou pela redução da pobreza. Os megaprojectos custando dezenas de bilhões de dólares são essenciais, mas o Conselho de Ministros pode orientar as...

Mozambique’s gas can be used to promote industrialisation and rural development, but only if key choices are made now. Current priorities are for export based mega-projects promising high revenues, but like past mega-projects doing little to create jobs or reduce poverty. Mega-projects costing tens of billions of dollars are essential, but the Council of Ministers can instruct that negotiations give a higher priority to using the gas to create a domestic industry and jobs, even if it reduces short term income.

This working paper examines the limitations of international and national law to address displacement and dispossession from land grabs within the case study of Mozambique. The main question that I seek to answer is: What limits international and national law in addressing displacement and dispossession due to land grabs in Mozambique? I will argue that the limits of law to address displacement and dispossession are not due to a lack of institutionalising international good governance norms...

This case study has been produced in response to a request made to the Evidence on Demand Helpdesk. The objective of the request was to provide a detailed case study on the evolution of land policy in Mozambique and provide the reader with insights into what is viewed as one of Africa’s most progressive land laws, recognising multiple forms of tenure. Mozambique has experienced accelerated rates of growth over the past decade, averaging 7.2% per year, with projected growth rates of over 8%....

Mozambique is set to become a world-class natural resource exporter with projections indicating that it will experience rapid increases in windfall revenues over the next several decades and well beyond. While this is welcome news for a low-income country with a substantial proportion of the population below the poverty line, it foreshadows some economic management problems ahead. The main concern is the poor economic record of many other lowincome countries with large natural resource...

The Area 1 Mozambique LNG project comprises the offshore Golfinho-Atum gas field development and a 12.88Mtpa onshore LNG facility in Mozambique.