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Transforming Mozambique: The Politics of Privatization, 1975 2000

Transforming Mozambique: The Politics of Privatization, 1975 2000

Pitcher, M. Anne
M. Anne, Pitcher

Paperback

Series: African Studies, Book 104

EconomicsAfrican HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0521052688
ISBN13: 9780521052689
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 11 2008
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
Many of the economic transformations in Africa have been as dramatic as those in Eastern Europe, though little is written about them. This study of Mozambique's shift from a command to a market economy draws on a wealth of empirical material, including archival sources, interviews, political posters and corporate advertisements, to reveal that the state is a central actor in the reform process, despite the claims of neo-liberals and their critics. Alongside the state, social forces--from World Bank officials to rural smallholders--have also accelerated, thwarted or shaped change in Mozambique. M. Anne Pitcher offers an intriguing analysis of the dynamic interaction between previous and emerging agents, ideas and institutions, to explain the erosion of socialism and the politics of privatization in a developing country. She demonstrates that Mozambique's present political economy is a heterogenous blend of ideological and institutional continuities and ruptures.

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