Starting the path to growth?

The labor force in Mozambique is significantly less than the economically dependent, so the challenge to develop the economy is bigger. Now if the population is not educated and dedicated mostly to the primary sector without a sufficient market to sell the products, is unsustainable.

Less than 40 years ago this country declared its independence and 20 years ago ended the civil war that delayed the construction of infrastructure, destroyed the existing and used the potential workforce.

Given the lack of opportunity and a labor market, most people work in crops here called machambas, mostly for home consumption. This also leads to the exploitation of natural resources like overfishing in rivers and seas or extraction of wood used as fuel.

Moreover, higher education is unaffordable for most people and is one of the causes of continuing poverty trap.

As I mentioned earlier, most tertiary education provision is concentrated in non-university institutions geared toward social and administrative sciences that have not have the same impact as careers like medicine or engineering but again the dilemma of the lack of human and physical resources.

Also the lack of entrepreneurial spirit that encourages ordinary people to start their own businesses when they are small and the incentive to be independent and stop waiting for better opportunities offered to them.

So if you ask me some strategy for economic development, at least in this case, it is necessary to respond to the job training (eg technical education to begin) and to be entrepreneurs so they begin to look for job opportunities , however they may be small.