 Thirty years ago, Mozambique was at rock bottom. It was in the middle of a war, and the economy was in deep crisis. The country started a situation, to be the poorest country in the world, at the end of the 1980s. Since the 1980s, Mozambique has been doing well. The country has liberalized the economy. Macro-economic stability was really pushing the economy to 7% on average growth in the last three decades. But it is still necessary to attack sectors that directly affect the lives of people in the country, especially the sector of access to basic services such as education, health, and also access to drinking water. We've seen the end of the war, we've seen economic reforms, we've seen a change in economic development, where the country has become rehabilitated. A lot more needs to be done. This process needs to continue and accelerate, creating more jobs and reducing poverty. This is what this project is about. This project aims to give more information to the policy makers to take the right decision to maintain 7% of the growth. For Mozambique to continue to develop, it needs new policies and actions. How do we know what will work? We need evidence. This project is about including the whole Mozambican population in the growth and development process, creating the jobs that are required for people who right now are either unemployed or work in conditions that are not decent. It's about producing the evidence that is required for policy making. Improving employment from depending on low productivity agriculture to higher productivity in more modern sectors. And it is about working with Mozambican researchers, formulating policies that are necessary for Mozambique to continue its economic progress.