Focus on infrastructure

Moving freight through

Mozambique is becoming

easier.

Since the mid-2000s the

Mozambican government

has “invested heavily” in

infrastructure, at an average

rate of 10% of its gross domestic

product a year, according

to a report by the African

Development Bank.

However, the road and other

infrastructure is “still far from

adequate to the country’s needs”.

According to the report much of

the investment by both the public

and private sectors has been

concentrated in urban areas.

A resulting improvement in

education and higher living

standards has attracted people

from the rural areas to Maputo in

particular.

But this is changing: “More

recently this spatial imbalance has

begun to reverse with substantial

FDI mainly in the centre and

north of the country.”