Mozambique: country launches survey on governance, corruption

Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi last Thursday officially launched a national survey on perceptions of governance and corruption in the country as part of public sector reform started in June 2001. "The proper functioning of the public sector is a condition sine qua non for consolidating democracy in the country since it will allow the established public powers to respond to the demands of society, and to exercise the State's role of guaranteeing citizens' rights," he said at the launch.