Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53070 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2001/146
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper makes use of a 1997 computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse three potential strategies that Mozambique can pursue unilaterally with a view to initiating a sustainable development process. They include (i) an agriculture-first strategy, (ii) an agricultural-development led industrialization (ADLI) strategy, and (iii) a primary-sector export-oriented strategy. The ADLI strategy dominates the other development strategies since important synergy effects in aggregate welfare arise from including key agro-industry sectors into the agriculture-first development strategy. Moreover, the ADLI strategy can be designed so it has a relatively strong impact on the welfare of the poorest poverty-stricken households, and still maintain the politically sensitive factorial distribution of income.
Subjects: 
CGE modelling
development strategy
Mozambique
JEL: 
D58
O11
ISBN: 
9291901172
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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