IMF Staff Country Reports

Republic of Mozambique: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

January 25, 2001

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International Monetary Fund. "Republic of Mozambique: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix", IMF Staff Country Reports 2001, 025 (2001), accessed 12/7/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451827101.002

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper on Mozambique provides an assessment of direct taxation and options to strengthen tax administration. The study analyzes the question of why Mozambique accumulated unsustainable debt, and discusses the potential factors of the evolution of the debt burden over time. The report also describes the characteristics and causes of rural poverty, the issues to be addressed for its reduction, and analyzes the opportunities and constraints facing smallholder agriculture and cash cropping. It also provides a statistical appendix report for the country.

Subject: Agricultural commodities, Budget planning and preparation, Commodities, Debt burden, Exchange rates, External debt, Foreign exchange, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Africa, Agricultural commodities, behavior in Mozambique, Budget planning and preparation, cash crop production, CR, debt burden, Debt burden, equilibrium exchange rate, exchange rate peg, Exchange rates, government, ISCR, Mozambique, nontradable goods, tradable goods market