Mozambique Economic Update, December 2017 : Making the Most of Demographic Change

Developments in the second half of 2017 indicate that the slowdown in Mozambique's economic performance may be taking hold, shifting this once fast-growing economy to a more modest pace of growth. GDP growth is expected to dip to 3.1 percent i...

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Main Author:	World Bank
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Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC OUTLOOK FISCAL TRENDS MONETARY POLICY TRADE DEMOGRAPHICS DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND URBANIZATION EMPLOYMENT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/386461513950634764/Mozambique-economic-update-making-the-most-of-demographic-change http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29100

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spelling	okr-10986-291002021-09-17T05:12:17Z Mozambique Economic Update, December 2017 : Making the Most of Demographic Change World Bank ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC OUTLOOK FISCAL TRENDS MONETARY POLICY TRADE DEMOGRAPHICS DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND URBANIZATION EMPLOYMENT Developments in the second half of 2017 indicate that the slowdown in Mozambique's economic performance may be taking hold, shifting this once fast-growing economy to a more modest pace of growth. GDP growth is expected to dip to 3.1 percent in 2017, despite substantial increases in coal and aluminum exports. Whilst these exports boomed, small and medium enterprises (SMEs)have fallen back even further, especially in the manufacturing sector, which contracted for this first time since 1994. Current trends make it clear that Mozambique needs to redouble its efforts to support small and medium enterprises, and to look beyond the extractive sector for more balanced growth. The drift towards a natural resource extraction based economy with low employment generation makes the case for Mozambique to leverage off its growing and youthful population provides for future growth. 2017-12-28T20:25:39Z 2017-12-28T20:25:39Z 2017-12 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/386461513950634764/Mozambique-economic-update-making-the-most-of-demographic-change http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29100 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Economic Updates and Modeling Economic & Sector Work Africa Mozambique
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description	Developments in the second half of 2017 indicate that the slowdown in Mozambique's economic performance may be taking hold, shifting this once fast-growing economy to a more modest pace of growth. GDP growth is expected to dip to 3.1 percent in 2017, despite substantial increases in coal and aluminum exports. Whilst these exports boomed, small and medium enterprises (SMEs)have fallen back even further, especially in the manufacturing sector, which contracted for this first time since 1994. Current trends make it clear that Mozambique needs to redouble its efforts to support small and medium enterprises, and to look beyond the extractive sector for more balanced growth. The drift towards a natural resource extraction based economy with low employment generation makes the case for Mozambique to leverage off its growing and youthful population provides for future growth.
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title	Mozambique Economic Update, December 2017 : Making the Most of Demographic Change
title_short	Mozambique Economic Update, December 2017 : Making the Most of Demographic Change
title_full	Mozambique Economic Update, December 2017 : Making the Most of Demographic Change
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publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
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Mozambique Economic Update, December 2017 : Making the Most of Demographic Change

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