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Do bicycles equal development in Mozambique?
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Do bicycles equal development in Mozambique?

Author: Joseph Hanlon; Teresa Smart
Publisher: Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : James Currey, 2008.
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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.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Hanlon, Joseph.
Do bicycles equal development in Mozambique?
Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : James Currey, 2008
(OCoLC)608836572
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joseph Hanlon; Teresa Smart
ISBN: 9781847013194 1847013198
OCLC Number: 243545110
Description: xiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 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 is Mozambique? --
Fremilo & the democratic one-party state --
Corruption, rent-seeking, reform & a divided elite --
Aid dependence & subservience: carrots & sticks --
On the edge of the world --
Questioning the cargo cult --
INcreased 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?
Responsibility: Joseph Hanlon & Teresa Smart.

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Mozambique has 7 percent a year growth rate and substantial foreign investment. Fifteen years after the war of destabilization, the peace has held. Mozambique is the donors' model pupil, carefully  Read more...

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