Mozambique: Investment Climate Assessment: 2009

MOZAMBIQUE’S INVESTMENT CLIMATE ASSESSMENT (ICA) –October 2009

The World Bank publishes the findings of its Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) for Mozambique

The objective of the ICA is to develop a better understanding of the constraints to investment and of the key elements that affect sustained productivity growth in a given country. The ICA uses as its primary data source an Enterprise Survey which, for Mozambique, was undertaken in the first half of 2008 and covered 599 micro, small, medium, and large firms. The ICA findings can add to the policy debate by improving the quantitative basis for discussion and, where possible, estimating effects of the constraints on firm growth and productivity. In particular, the proposed ICA seeks to: (i) measure, in a standardized way, the investment climate conditions in Mozambique; (ii) develop a set of indicators at the regional level that allow for regional comparison within the country; (iii) provide comparisons of conditions with those prevailing in other countries and regions; and (iv) identify the features of the investment climate that matter most for productivity and, therefore, GDP growth.