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  "title": "Republic of Mozambique: Selected Issues",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, February 19, 2026",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues paper focuses on growth challenges and policy priorities in Mozambique. Mozambique stands at a critical juncture in its development trajectory. Mozambique’s economy has slowed sharply since 2016 with two-thirds of the population below the poverty line.",
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      "heading": "Growth outlook and macro constraints",
      "content": "- Mozambique’s economy has slowed sharply since 2016.\n- Two-thirds of the population are below the poverty line.\n- Fiscal constraints limit investment in education, health, and connectivity.\n- The paper highlights gaps in physical infrastructure and human capital that constrain growth."
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      "heading": "Labor market, structural transformation, and job creation",
      "content": "- Over half a million young people enter the job market annually.\n- Job creation remains weak as structural transformation has favored extractive industries over manufacturing.\n- Informality dominates, accounting for about 95 percent of jobs."
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      "heading": "Agriculture, productivity, and rural livelihoods",
      "content": "- Agriculture employs three-quarters of the population.\n- Agriculture suffers from low productivity and limited access to inputs and finance."
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      "heading": "Human development and social spending",
      "content": "- Human development indicators are among the world’s lowest.\n- Fiscal pressures are constraining social and development spending, limiting improvements in education and health outcomes."
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      "heading": "Policy priorities and reform agenda",
      "content": "- Promote economic diversification away from reliance on extractive industries.\n- Pursue job-rich growth strategies to absorb over half a million new labor market entrants annually.\n- Modernize agriculture to raise productivity and expand access to inputs and finance for the three-quarters of the population employed in the sector.\n- Improve governance to enhance the efficiency of public spending and attract investment.\n- Expand access to finance to support entrepreneurship, formalization, and private-sector-led job creation.\n\nRepublic of Mozambique: Selected Issues, IMF Staff Country Reports, February 19, 2026\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Republic of Mozambique: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 26/46; January 28, 2026\n  - Republic of Mozambique: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 26/46; January 28, 2026 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Republic of Mozambique: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 26/46; January 28, 2026 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: February 19, 2026",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229040846.002",
    "Mozambique’s economy has slowed sharply since 2016.",
    "Two-thirds of the population are below the poverty line.",
    "Fiscal constraints limit investment in education, health, and connectivity.",
    "The paper highlights gaps in physical infrastructure and human capital that constrain growth.",
    "Over half a million young people enter the job market annually.",
    "Informality dominates, accounting for about 95 percent of jobs.",
    "Agriculture employs three-quarters of the population.",
    "Agriculture suffers from low productivity and limited access to inputs and finance.",
    "Human development indicators are among the world’s lowest.",
    "Fiscal pressures are constraining social and development spending, limiting improvements in education and health outcomes.",
    "Promote economic diversification away from reliance on extractive industries.",
    "Pursue job-rich growth strategies to absorb over half a million new labor market entrants annually.",
    "Modernize agriculture to raise productivity and expand access to inputs and finance for the three-quarters of the population employed in the sector.",
    "Improve governance to enhance the efficiency of public spending and attract investment.",
    "Expand access to finance to support entrepreneurship, formalization, and private-sector-led job creation.",
    "**Republic of Mozambique: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 26/46; January 28, 2026**"
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