Transforming Mozambique : the politics of privatization, 1975-2000

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Author:

Pitcher, M. Anne.

ISBN:

9780521820110

9780521533829

Personal Author:

Pitcher, M. Anne.

Publication Information:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 293 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.

Series:

African studies series ; 104

African studies series ; 104.

Series Title:

African studies series ; 104

General Note:

Published in collaboration with The African Studies Centre, Cambridge.

Contents:

1. The reconfiguration of the interventionist state after independence -- 2. Demiurge ascending: high modernism and the making of Mozambique -- 3. State sector erosion and the turn to the market -- 4. A privatizing state or a statist privatization? -- 5. Continuities and discontinuities in manufacturing -- 6. Capital and countryside after structural adjustment -- 7. The end of Marx and the beginning of the market? Rhetorical efforts to legitimate transformative preservation.

Abstract:

"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.

Subject Term:

Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Mozambique.

Privatization -- Mozambique.

Geographic Term:

Mozambique -- Economic policy.

Added Corporate Author:

University of Cambridge. African Studies Centre.

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Many of the economic transformations in Africa have been as dramatic as those in Eastern Europe. Yet much of the comparative literature on transitions has overlooked African countries. This 2002 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 political economy is a heterogenous blend of ideological and institutional continuities and ruptures.