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Mozambique: IMF approves US$176 million for exogenous shocks

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:46:00 +0200

The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday, 1 July 2009, approved a 12-month, SDR of 113.6 million (about US$176 million) for Mozambique under the IMF's Exogenous Shocks Facility (ESF) to cushion the country from the effects of the global economic downturn, said Felix Fischer, IMF resident representative in Mozambique.
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Mozambique: WB reports improved business but low productivity

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:10:00 +0200

MAPUTO: The business environment in Mozambique registered significant improvements last year but productivity levels, which could allow the country to compete in global markets are still a big concern, according to a World Bank report released on Monday, 29 June 2009.
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Mozambique: Researchers ponder value of cash transfers

Wed, 13 May 2009 11:04:00 +0200

MAPUTO: Their mud huts perch precariously on the eroded, high embankment of the Zambezi river, in the provincial capital of Tete, in central Mozambique. But watching their homes be washed away by erosion or floods is just another risk for the residents of Matundo and Matheus Sansao Muthemba bairros. Their lives are as precarious as their homes.
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“Fight against poverty is our new war” say Mozambique's poor

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:24:00 +0200

Retail trade and its associated sectors cannot thrive in a society encumbered by poverty - what the poor of mozambique regard as their "new war".
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Mozambique: Cheap rail travel boosts cross-border trade

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:46:00 +0200

Angelina Sidumo is one of the hundreds of traders that throng the busy train station in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, on most Wednesday afternoons to catch the once-weekly train south to Chicualacuala town in Gaza Province, an 18-hour journey covering nearly 500km.
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Mozambique: Boost for the small farmer

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:25:00 +0200

In an effort to build a long-term source of food supplies in developing countries while boosting small-scale agriculture, the World Food Programme (WFP) will soon begin buying food from local farmers in Mozambique.
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Mozambique: Second wave of reforms aims to share wealth

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:21:00 +0200

After a four year stint working on a South African gold mine in Johannesburg, Orlando Khosa, 33, returned home to Mozambique to establish his own business and eight years later it proved to be a smart business decision.
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Mozambican, SA farmers partner to grow sugarcane

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:13:00 +0200

The Mozambican government will donate 29,000 hectares of land to small-scale sugarcane farmers in both Mozambique and South Africa over the next three years.
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Chirundu becomes one-stop border post

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:24:00 +0200

Zambia and Zimbabwe have signed a bilateral agreement that will see the transformation of Chirundu into a one-stop border post - and that will reduce transit times for imports and exports through border.
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Zimbabwe: Promise of full shop shelves met with scepticism

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:17:00 +0200

Predictions by Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank Governor, Gideon Gono, that empty supermarket shelves will soon be packed with goods are being received somewhat sceptically by Zimbabweans.
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