Mozambique: Contested Sovereignty? The Dilemmas of Aid Dependence

de Renzio, Paolo and Hanlon, Joseph (2009). Mozambique: Contested Sovereignty? The Dilemmas of Aid Dependence. In: Whitfield, Lindsay ed. The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 246–270.

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Abstract

Mozambique is highly aid dependent and both sovereignty and ownership are highly contested. Donors imposed policies and do not trust government, while allowing corruption in exchange for government following neo-liberal economic policies. It may be an unstable 'pathological equilibrium'.

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• Item ORO ID
• 20883
• Item Type
• Book Section
• ISBN
• 0-19-956017-X, 978-0-19-956017-2
• Keywords
• mozambique; moçambique; aid; donors; poverty; dependence; ownership
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Development
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
• Research Group
• Innovation, Knowledge & Development research centre (IKD)
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• © 2009 Oxford University Press
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• • http://www.open.ac.uk/technology/mozambi...(Author Website)
• Depositing User
• Joseph Hanlon