Economic development and institutions – Mozambique at a fork in the road: an institutional diagnostic: Synthesis and policy recommendations

We now proceed to bringing together the different elements of previous chapters with the aim of presenting the essence of this country study of Mozambique. In the next section, we take stock and revisit our points of departure from Chapters 2 and 3. This background work culminated in the identification of nine thematic areas, subsequently subjected to individual in-depth studies in Chapters 4–12. We outline the core findings from these studies, and present our integrated analysis of key institutional weaknesses. Next, we go a decisive step further, and analyse and discuss their proximate causes and deep factors. We end with a series of ideas for reform, as an input to national reflection, debate, and action.