Transforming Mozambique
Subtitle: the politics of privatization, 1975-2000
By: M. Anne Pitcher
Series: African studies series -- 104
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Mozambique; Privatization -- Mozambique; Mozambique -- Economic policy
Description: "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 heterogeneous blend of ideological and institutional continuities and ruptures."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-286) and index