The government's planning instruments were developed in a context of economic and social transformations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, whose impacts are raging not only in Mozambique, but throughout the world.
The high vulnerability and limited capacity of resilience to external and systemic shocks to which the country is exposed, combined with the current situation, impose on the government the need for greater prudence in macroeconomic management, as a way to reduce their harmful effects. It is within this framework that, for example, the forecast for economic growth in 2020 was revised downwards, from 2.2% to 0.8%, as a result of the impact of COVID-19.
The State budget proposal is an important document that allows for public scrutiny, with a view to containing proposals for improvements arising from different entities and Mozambican citizens in general. However, over the years there has been a scenario in which the approved SOs do not take, to a great extent, or literally, the recommendations proposed by the public.
