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.
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| Is There Development in Mozambique? | |
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| Introduction: more bicycles, but | |
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| A brief history: war, peace & slow recovery | |
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| Can peasants pull Nampula out of poverty? | |
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| The Manica miracle is over | |
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| Cashew: from disaster to export model | |
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| Tobacco: hard choices | |
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| Has poverty decreased? | |
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| Is there development in Mozambique? | |
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| Actors & Context | |
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| Frelimo & the democratic one-party state | |
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| Corruption, rent-seeking, reform & a divided elite | |
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| Aid dependence & subservience: carrots & sticks | |
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| On the edge of the world | |
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| Alternatives & the Developmental State | |
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| Questioning the cargo cult | |
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| Increase demand to kick-start the economy | |
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| Agriculture & the new role for the state | |
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| Finance & a development bank | |
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| The developmental state builds capitalism | |
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| Can Mozambique stop putting its hand out & become a development state? | |
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| Aid | |
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| Investment & other tables | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
Frances Christie is a Mozambique-based journalist with 15 years of experience writing about aid and emergencies in Mozambique.Joseph Hanlon is a writer and former journalist for New Scientist. This is his fifth book on Mozambique.
