On the choice of appropriate development strategy: Insights from CGE modelling of the Mozambican economy

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This paper makes use of a 1997 computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse three potential strategies that Mozambique can pursue unilaterally with a view to initiating a sustainable development process. They include (i) an agriculture-first strategy, (ii) an agricultural-development led industrialization (ADLI) strategy, and (iii) a primary-sector export-oriented strategy. The ADLI strategy dominates the other development strategies since important synergy effects in aggregate welfare arise from including key agro-industry sectors into the agriculture-first development strategy. Moreover, the ADLI strategy can be designed so it has a relatively strong impact on the welfare of the poorest poverty-stricken households, and still maintain the politically sensitive factorial distribution of income.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch
• ISBN: 9291901172

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Discussion Paper ; No. 2001/146

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models ; Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
• Subject: CGE modelling ; development strategy ; Mozambique ; Entwicklungsstrategie ; Allgemeines Gleichgewicht ; Mosambik

Contributors, Location and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Tarp Jensen, Henning ; Tarp, Finn
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2001

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/53070
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