{"id":230137,"date":"2026-04-11T14:42:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-world-bank-accused-of-using-outdated-statistics\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T14:42:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:42:26","slug":"mozambique-world-bank-accused-of-using-outdated-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-world-bank-accused-of-using-outdated-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: World Bank Accused of Using Outdated Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambican Finance Minister Carla Louveira has accused the World Bank of using outdated statistics in its latest report on Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The report, entitled &#8220;Mozambique Economic Update: From Fragility to Stability&#8221;, published in March, claims that Mozambique is &#8220;the second poorest country and among the ten most unequal in the world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">As the World Bank must have expected, this has led to a spate of media headlines, announcing that Mozambique is &#8220;the second poorest country&#8221; on the planet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604090025.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 Mozambican Finance Minister Carla Louveira has accused the World Bank of using outdated statistics in its latest report on Mozambique. The report, entitled &#8220;Mozambique Economic Update: From Fragility to Stability&#8221;, published in March, claims that Mozambique is &#8220;the second poorest country and among the ten most unequal in the world&#8221;. As the World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00351574:2351e4e3d1e5b0b132cbcc045dbda33d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[7083,258,256,7089,4704,682,257,29685,254,12442,5093],"class_list":["post-230137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bank","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-outdated","tag-south-africa-today","tag-statistics","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00351574:2351e4e3d1e5b0b132cbcc045dbda33d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}