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Mozambique
Population: 21.4mn.
GNI, $ : 6.8bn.
Debt: 4.2bn.
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The Mozambican authorities are calling for Chinese investment in manufacturing and industry, and not just trade and infrastructure, so as to build up national economic capacity.

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  • Vol 5 No 1
  •  November 2011

Maputo’s pan-Asian business plan

The government is bringing in investment from every substantial economy in Asia to back its industrialisation and energy projects

  • Vol 5 No 1
  •  November 2011

Diverse diplomats

The array of investments across the economy shows that the government is keen to see Mozambique diversify away from purely resource-based flows. The variety of Asian partners is a diplomatic diversification and perhaps just as important.

  • Vol 4 No 4
  •  February 2011

It’s mine

Asian mining companies, from India’s state-owned giants to the opaque China International Fund, are taking up their positions for Mozambique’s great mining rush. The Indian government has already projected that it will face an 81-million-tonne coal shorta...

  • Vol 3 No 12
  •  October 2010

Maputo opens its markets

If it comes to fruition, China Tong Jian’s multibillion-dollar agreement promises to bring in Mozambique’s largest-ever investment

  • Vol 3 No 12
  •  October 2010

Building a Chinatown in Catembe

When Prime Minister Aires Aly and Planning and Development Minister Aiuba Cuereneia met the delegation from China Tong Jian Investment Corporation in late August, they signed a memorandum for the construction of a Chinese residential and industrial park ...

  • Vol 2 No 8
  •  June 2009

Billions for all

The list of countries with multibillion-dollar, Chinese-backed projects is growing longer, with Mozambique the latest country to receive a golden handshake. In late May, China Exim Bank announced US$2.3 billion in loans for the Mphanda Nkuwa dam on the...

  • Vol 2 No 6
  •  April 2009

Old King Coal

Japanese and Indian interest in Mozambican coal is growing and export prices are rising again. In a deal in March between the BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance and Japan's Nippon Steel with coal, the price of coal was fixed at US$129 a tonne for the Ja...

  • Vol 1 No 5
  •  March 2008

Firing up the coal

India needs coal to fire up its growth, freight rates from Australia's mines have soared, and India's own coal-mines are crippled by price controls and labour regulations. So importers are looking to Mozambique, where shipping costs are 30% below Austr...

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