Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/57674 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Citation: 
[Journal:] Weekly Report [ISSN:] 1860-3343 [Volume:] 7 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) [Place:] Berlin [Year:] 2011 [Pages:] 9-12
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
How do households cope with post-war economic reconstruction? Are groups of households trapped in poverty? These questions are discussed using the case of Mozambique, a nation in Southern Africa. Shortly after gaining independence in 1975, Mozambique delved into a civil war that lasted until 1992. Our analysis explores poverty dynamics among rural households a decade after the civil war ended. Findings indicate that both income and asset endowments are very low and the prevalence of poverty is high. However, there is no evidence that households are trapped in poverty. Instead, the rural farm-based economy as such provides very few prospects for improved livelihoods. This appears to be one of the legacies of the civil war, which destroyed much of the public infrastructure and the physical asset endowments of households and increased the welfare gap between urban and rural.
Subjects: 
asset-based approach
Mozambique
poverty trap
shocks
violent conflict
JEL: 
J12
J22
O12
Document Type: 
Article

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