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Mozambique FRELIMO gas and fiscal reform regime 2014-present

MOZ·2014 – present·Frente de Libertacao de Mocambique (FRELIMO)
Leaders: Armando Guebuza (President, FRELIMO, to 2015) · Filipe Nyusi (President, FRELIMO, 2015-2025) · Daniel Chapo (President, FRELIMO, 2025-)

Doctrine — stated goals and content

FRELIMO's gas-era economic regime combined special investment terms for the Rovuma LNG projects, post-hidden-debt fiscal repair through IMF re-engagement, and a sovereign-fund framework for future natural-gas revenues. The governing line presents the programme as resource-led reconstruction, fiscal transparency, and infrastructure development while keeping extractive rents under central executive management.

Policy-content fingerprint — how the framework codes this movement on its axes

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trade openness
regulatory.trade_openness
Trade policy openness — tariffs, non-tariff barriers, FTAs, industrial protection.
increased · moderate
more open trade
Rovuma LNG investment terms and IMF re-engagement reopened large external financing and investor channels.
↓
spending level
fiscal.spending_level
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
decreased · weak
lower spending share
IMF programme and sovereign-fund rules restrain parts of discretionary fiscal use of resource revenues.
↑
sectoral subsidy
fiscal.sectoral_subsidy
Targeted industrial and sectoral subsidies (renewable energy, chip manufacturing, agriculture, green hydrogen, etc).
increased · moderate
expanded sectoral subsidies
LNG special regime and project infrastructure target a strategic extractive sector.
↑
rule of law
institutional.rule_of_law
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
increased · weak
stronger rule of law
Fiscal transparency and sovereign-fund rules partially repair hidden-debt-era governance failures.

Policies enacted

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