Jack Armstrong

History of Mozambique Politics, and Early Emergency Jack Armstrong

History of Mozambique Politics, and Early Emergency, and Environmental Situation. A History Bool. Economy, Democracy implementation and general environment. Quagmire may bring down a promising economy: The unstoppable force of booming business collides with the immoveable object of the country's dangerous political status quo. Faced with Mozambique's political stalemate, most countries would muse that they should be so lucky. The head of government, finance minister or central bank governor of any country would salivate at the prospect of a 17.6 percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate, which on 8 October 2015 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted would be Mozambique's in 2020 once natural gas sales begin. Even the IMF's news that Mozambique's 2015 GDP growth would be the worst since 2009 was hardly tragic. A 7 percent growth is robust and is again the envy of most countries, including China, Russia and the US.