Do Bicycles Equal Development in Mozambique?

Name: Do Bicycles Equal Development in Mozambique?
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ISBN: 9781847013194

ISBN-10: 1847013198

ISBN-13: 9781847013194

Edition: 2008

Authors: Joseph Hanlon, Teresa Smart, Teresa Smart

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Mozambique is the donor's model pupil, carefully following their prescriptions and receiving more than a billion dollars a year in aid. Here, the authors challenge some key assumptions of both the donors and the government.

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Publication date: 11/20/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English




Is There Development in Mozambique?



Introduction: more bicycles, but



A brief history: war, peace & slow recovery



Can peasants pull Nampula out of poverty?



The Manica miracle is over



Cashew: from disaster to export model



Tobacco: hard choices



Has poverty decreased?



Is there development in Mozambique?



Actors & Context



Frelimo & the democratic one-party state



Corruption, rent-seeking, reform & a divided elite



Aid dependence & subservience: carrots & sticks



On the edge of the world



Alternatives & the Developmental State



Questioning the cargo cult



Increase demand to kick-start the economy



Agriculture & the new role for the state



Finance & a development bank



The developmental state builds capitalism



Can Mozambique stop putting its hand out & become a development state?



Aid



Investment & other tables


Bibliography


Index