Competitiveness is the single biggest challenge facing Mozambican businesses today.
Looking forward a couple of decades, ongoing discoveries of natural resources offer the country an opportunity to engineer an economic transformation which will benefit not only business but society as a whole. However natural resource discoveries of the magnitude of those discovered in Mozambique not only confer benefits but also bring risks.
USAID/SPEED began addressing the potential impacts of a resource boom on the economy as early as 2011, long before other stakeholders started paying attention. We began with research began on the possible impacts of changes to the exchange rate and the spectre of “Dutch disease”. Since then, with our partners from CTA, we have explored a variety of ways in which the resource boom may affect the private sector. This publication includes most of the work we carried out over the past four years. All of the reports included here, along with many more reports, prese
