Zitamar News: Mozambique economic & political outlook, with Roberto Tibana – Today @ Cardoso

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Zitamar News: Mozambique economic & political outlook, with Roberto Tibana – Today @ Cardoso

1:44 CAT | 17 Oct 2017

Photo courtesy of Zitamar News / Roberto Tibana

Join Zitamar News today Tuesday, 17 October, at 4h30 p.m., for an exclusive briefing on Mozambique’s medium term economic and political outlook, with economist Dr. Roberto Tibana and Zitamar editor Tom Bowker, followed by networking and sundowners at Maputo’s legendary Hotel Cardoso. You may also follow this @ZitamarNews event online, as the conference is to be broadcast live.

Today at 16:30 CAT (14:30 GMT) for expert analysis of:

Mozambique’s medium-term macroeconomic outlook
The fiscal outlook – including analysis of the government’s new budget proposal for FY2018
How the government budget has been impacted by the ‘aid freeze’ – and the prospects for the return of donor funding
Scenarios for the resolution of the remaining $1.7 billion ‘hidden debt’

A link to the videoconference will be sent to attendees shortly before the start of the event.

Tibana, a lifelong student of the Mozambican economy with decades of experience working at multilateral organisations – including the World Bank and the IMF – brings his unparalleled experience and expertise into his latest quarterly forecast for the Mozambican economy.

The event – conducted in English – will see the launch of Dr Tibana’s new series of Quarterly outlooks for the Mozambican economy, and will also see him discuss the government’s latest budget proposal, expected to be tabled to parliament in early October.

He will explain and quantify the impact of the aid freeze that resulted from the revelations of the ProIndicus, EMATUM and MAM ‘hidden debts’, and how Mozambique might restructure those outstanding debts, having now defaulted on all three.

In a Q&A session after the briefing, held under the Chatham House rule, Tibana and Zitamar News Editor Tom Bowker will discuss with participants this pivotal moment in Mozambique’s history.

About Dr Roberto Tibana

Educated at Oxford University, with a D Phil from St Anthony’s College, Tibana now runs his own economics consultancy, Analitica-RJT, and travels with the IMF on staff missions to other African countries – giving him an invaluable perspective on what the IMF is looking for in Mozambique.

Decades of work with the World Bank, DfID, and the UNDP among others has included stints developing a macroeconomic forecasting tools for Ghana and advising the finance ministry of Liberia.

In 2003, he created the Composite Indicator of Economic Activity in Mozambique (ICAE), in partnership with the OECD, the Government of Mozambique, and Mozambican business association the CTA. The ICAE, whose candid assessments of the economy eventually saw it fall foul of the government, was “motivated by the need to enhance constructive dialogue between domestic private and public sector agents in Mozambique, by providing them with a common tool of knowledge about the long-term and short- to medium-term performance and prospects of the economy, and how this relates to policy.

Tickets for the Hotel Cardoso event and for the videoconference are still available here.

Source: Zitamar News