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  "title": "Republic of Mozambique: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, September 6, 2005",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix reviews Mozambique’s impressive economic growth, its composition, and its impact on poverty reduction over the past decade.",
  "publishDate": "2005-09-06",
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      "heading": "Executive summary and core findings",
      "content": "- Reviews Mozambique’s impressive economic growth, its composition, and its impact on poverty reduction over the past decade.\n- Highlights that improvements in total factor productivity resulted from:\n  - a stable macroeconomic environment,\n  - the implementation of structural reforms,\n  - high inflows of foreign capital and concessional assistance.\n- Notes that good progress has been made in reducing poverty and improving social indicators.\n- Takes stock of the tax reform that Mozambique has implemented since 1996."
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    {
      "heading": "Subjects and keywords",
      "content": "- Subject: Corporate income tax, Income and capital gains taxes, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Tax incentives, Taxes, Value added tax\n- Keywords: Africa, Corporate income tax, CR, economic growth, economic recovery, foreign direct investment, GDP, GDP growth, GDP performance, growth experience, IMF staff estimate, Income and capital gains taxes, investment-GDP ratio, ISCR, market liberalization, Mozambique, Poverty reduction, Sub-Saharan Africa, tax, Tax incentives, Value-added tax, VAT"
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      "heading": "Analytical emphasis for readers and policymakers",
      "content": "- Growth decomposition: Emphasis on total factor productivity gains as a major driver of growth.\n- Role of macro policy and reforms: Stable macroeconomic policies coupled with structural reforms are linked to productivity improvements.\n- External finance and concessional assistance: High inflows of foreign capital and concessional assistance are identified as important contributors to growth and public investment.\n- Poverty and social indicators: Documented progress in poverty reduction and improvements in social indicators over the reviewed decade.\n- Tax policy: Provides a stock-taking of tax reform measures implemented since 1996, with attention to corporate income tax, value added tax, income and capital gains taxes, and tax incentives."
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      "content": "- Useful for analysis of Mozambique’s growth experience, the contribution of productivity versus factor accumulation, and the impact of reforms and external financing on poverty reduction.\n- Relevant for tax policy analysts examining Mozambique’s post-1996 tax reforms and revenue mobilization instruments.\n\nSource: Republic of Mozambique: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix (IMF Staff Country Reports, September 6, 2005).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Mozambique: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix; IMF Country Report 05/311; June 8, 2005\n  - Mozambique: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix; IMF Country Report 05/311; June 8, 2005 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Mozambique: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix; IMF Country Report 05/311; June 8, 2005 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/cr/issues/2016/12/31/republic-of-mozambique-selected-issues-and-statistical-appendix-18529"
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    "Published: September 6, 2005",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451931181.002",
    "Reviews Mozambique’s impressive economic growth, its composition, and its impact on poverty reduction over the past decade.",
    "Highlights that improvements in total factor productivity resulted from:",
    "Notes that good progress has been made in reducing poverty and improving social indicators.",
    "Takes stock of the tax reform that Mozambique has implemented since 1996.",
    "Subject: Corporate income tax, Income and capital gains taxes, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Tax incentives, Taxes, Value added tax",
    "Keywords: Africa, Corporate income tax, CR, economic growth, economic recovery, foreign direct investment, GDP, GDP growth, GDP performance, growth experience, IMF staff estimate, Income and capital gains taxes, investment-GDP ratio, ISCR, market liberalization, Mozambique, Poverty reduction, Sub-Saharan Africa, tax, Tax incentives, Value-added tax, VAT",
    "Growth decomposition: Emphasis on total factor productivity gains as a major driver of growth.",
    "Role of macro policy and reforms: Stable macroeconomic policies coupled with structural reforms are linked to productivity improvements.",
    "External finance and concessional assistance: High inflows of foreign capital and concessional assistance are identified as important contributors to growth and public investment.",
    "Poverty and social indicators: Documented progress in poverty reduction and improvements in social indicators over the reviewed decade.",
    "Tax policy: Provides a stock-taking of tax reform measures implemented since 1996, with attention to corporate income tax, value added tax, income and capital gains taxes, and tax incentives.",
    "Useful for analysis of Mozambique’s growth experience, the contribution of productivity versus factor accumulation, and the impact of reforms and external financing on poverty reduction.",
    "Relevant for tax policy analysts examining Mozambique’s post-1996 tax reforms and revenue mobilization instruments.",
    "**Mozambique: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix; IMF Country Report 05/311; June 8, 2005**"
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