Mozambique's Elite - Finding its Way in a Globalized World and Returning to Old Development Models

Joseph Hanlon and Marcelo Mosse

No wp-2010-105, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: What makes elites developmental instead of predatory? We argue that Mozambique's elite was developmental at independence 35 years ago. With pressure and encouragement from international forces, it became predatory. It has now partly returned to its developmental roots and is trying to use the state to promote the creation of business groups that could be large enough and dynamic enough to follow a development model with some similarities to the Asian Tigers, industrial development in Latin America, or Volkskapitalisme in apartheid South Africa.

Keywords: Economic development; Political science; Poverty; Socialism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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