Mozambique

Can targeted interventions reduce school-based gender-based violence? Teacher and student training on gender-based violence in Mozambique leads to a reduction in teacher-led violence and greater school retention for girls.

A new experiment in Mozambique found that the social stigma attached to HIV has been falling, but people do not tend to realise it. A simple message that informed individuals of their communities’ true (low) degrees of stigma substantially increased ...

A widely implemented HIV/AIDS programme inadvertently decreased HIV testing by worsening misinformation and HIV-related stigmatising attitudes, but a simple follow-up intervention offset the programme’s adverse effects.

Providing flood risk and mitigation information to households through digital channels like text messages improved community-level collaboration in Mozambique

Research in Mozambique highlights new, lower-cost approaches to reducing pupil absenteeism in low-income countries

Natural resource discoveries trigger FDI bonanzas and employment booms through a local FDI job multiplier, but also induce political instability

Bundling genetic and financial technologies can make small-scale agriculture more resilient and productive

Conflict-driven displacement can trigger structural transformation, but can also cause long-lasting social and psychological trauma

Growth in human capital reduces agricultural labour supply, while in turn the expansion of non-agricultural sectors drives human capital growth