The Agrarian Question in Mozambique's Transition and Reconstruction

Marc Wuyts

No DP2001-14, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The economic policies of transition and reconstruction in Mozambique, like the policies of central planning beforehand, were based on an inappropriate model of the inherited rural economy. Under central planning, the peasantry was looked upon as a mass of subsistence producers; with the economic reforms came the vision of the peasantry as a mass of smallholder producers. Both these views ignored the extent to which peasant livelihoods depended on the complex and varied linkages between wage labour and household production.

Keywords: Agriculture; Economic growth; Structural adjustment (Economic policy); Social conflict (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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