Beating the Odds : Sustaining Inclusion in Mozambique's Growing Economy

This assessment, reflecting
poverty's many dimensions in Mozambique, combines
multiple disciplines and diagnostic tools to explore
poverty. It draws on a combination of approaches and tools
from three separate analytical diagnostics developed by the
World Bank: poverty assessment, country gender assessment,
and country social analysis. It uses monetary, human, and
social indicators and combines quantitative and qualitative
approaches to understand trends in poverty and the dynamics
that shape them. The objective is to support the development
and implementation of pro-poor policies that really work by
taking poverty's multiple dimensions into account.
Because Mozambique has not collected nationally
representative household survey data measuring poverty
status and outcome indicators since 2003, the report focuses
primarily on the changes in poverty and household community
welfare through that year. When data are available after
2003, the assessment uses them, including data from a
special non representative survey developed for this
report-the poverty and vulnerability survey. The starting
point for the analysis uses multiple quantitative and
qualitative indicators that describe levels of and changes
in opportunities and outcomes for households and communities
in Mozambique since 1997. The rest of the report explains
these changes.