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Market-oriented policy agendas have enjoyed a remarkable influence in Indonesia for almost four decades. Yet, attempts to impose these agendas in any systematic fashion have proven uncertain and inconclusive. This is not simply a case of successful resistance to reform by entrenched interests. Rather, the deepening of market capitalism and global integration has, in many instances, appeared to consolidate authoritarian politics and predatory economic relationships. Even in the wake of...

Globalisation opens up new economic opportunities if poor women producers and workers are enabled to take advantage of them. The need for assistance differs between independent producers on the one hand and wage workers in export industries on the other. In the former case, the need mainly is for increased access to global markets. In the latter case, the need mainly is for better organising so as to bargain for better wages and working conditions. This edited volume brings together six case...

Information on the Swedish support to the private sector related to agriculture in Niassa, Mozambique 2003.

This paper brings together gender analysis, small scale enterprise analysis, and gender budget analysis in a development context. The paper demonstrates that gender matters not only to the ownership of an SME, but also to its most likely principal activity, the stock of the assets that it possesses, the labour that it utilizes, the costs that it faces, the revenues that it generates, and the profits that it earns. In particular, lower earnings for female-owned SMEs can be attributed to the...

Published as part of the working paper series of the Italian Cooperation. Discusses the dynamics of industrialization in the early stages of large FDI boom in Mozambique, as well as challenges ahead,

This case study has attempted to show that the implementation of a policy mechanism like PSP in water and sanitation in a context like Niassa is highly unlikely to achieve the development impacts intended. It appears that the concept “PSP” itself is erroneous; it assumes that there is a private sector wishing to participate, and that public sector delivery is the key obstacle to private involvement. Equally erroneous is the idea that the private sector can just emerge from market mechanisms...

The process of decentralization in Indonesia was initiated after a long period of autocratic rule. Despite the political imperatives, there is a need to carefully sequence the fiscal decentralization to ensure that financing follows the assignment of functions. The functions should be commensurate with the capacity to provide public services. The paper argues for the proper sequencing to avoid jeopardizing macroeconomic stability or the effective delivery of public services.

This article reconstructs key aspects of the evolving relationship between state institutions and former regulos (Portuguese‐appointed chiefs), in Nampula Province, Mozambique during the first 12 years of independence. In doing so, it simultaneously draws on and critiques two opposing interpretations of revolution and counterrevolution which have dominated scholarly production on post‐independence Mozambique and have polarized Mozambican studies in recent years. Against both sets of...

In mid-1998, a World Bank study grimly noted that "Indonesia is in deep economic crisis. A country that achieved decades of rapid growth, stability, and poverty reduction is now near economic collapse . . . no country in recent history, let alone one the size of Indonesia, has ever suffered such a dramatic reversal of fortune." There is bitter irony in Indonesia's fall from grace. Long hailed as a model of successful economic development, it was widely predicted to escape the fate of...

Despite significant problems with urban criminal gangs and highway robbers, Mozambique is a country at peace since 4 October, 1992. Under the auspices of the Italian religious congregation of Santo Egidio,4 Joaquim Alberto Chissano, president of the Republic and of the Frente de libertagao de Mozambique (FRELIMO), once the 'Marxist-Leninist' single-party of the country, and Afonso Dhlakama, president of the Resistencia national de Mogambique (RENAMO), the former guerrilla group and longtime...

Even among a successful group of small business owners, women generate lower sales volumes and derive less income than their male counterparts. Alternative explanations of women's relative disadvantage are evaluated systematically. The characteristics of the owner and the small business that differ between genders explain the discrepancy in financial success, with the smaller size of women's businesses emerging as the major explanatory factor. Women's lack of experience and their...

The liberation of women is a fundamental necessity for the revolution, a guarantee of its continuity and a condition for its success (Machel, 1973). In his opening address to the first conference of the Mozambique Women's Organisation (OMM) in 1973, Samora Machel, President of Frelimo, affirmed that women's emancipation was an integral aspect of revolutionary struggle. In 1973 Frelimo was still a liberation front engaged in armed struggle against colonial rule. The northern part of...

Conclusion Of course, the political disgrace of Joana Simiao does not by itself solve the problem of Makua-Lomwe separatism, any more than the collapse of the Movement for a Free Mozambique has solved the larger problems of national reconstruction in Mozambique. But by now it should be clear to all that the only political movement qualified to achieve that goal is FRELIMO, who demonstrably are working for the interests of all Mozambicans and who enjoy the support of Mozambicans of all...

English Situation Report on Mozambique about Camp Coordination and Camp Management, Health, Epidemic and more; published on 19 Apr 2021 by IOM

This paper analyses inclusive land governance in Mozambique. It focuses on the country’s legal framework and the DUAT, the right to use and benefit from the land.

MSF is working in Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique, where a little-known conflict and very few organisations working on the ground results in poor access to healthcare for people.

The Area 1 Mozambique LNG project comprises the offshore Golfinho-Atum gas field development and a 12.88Mtpa onshore LNG facility in Mozambique.

ProSAVANA project in Mozambique There are tremendous numbers of development projects all over the world. Mozambique is one of the least developed countries. A serious issue in Mozambique is food security. Even though 80 percent of the labor force in Mozambique engages in agriculture (USAID 2017), Mozambique’s farmland is tropical savanna that features very poor soil quality, and Mozambique does not have technologies to overcome this issue. As related to a food security issue, more than two...

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Este artigo analisa o fenómeno da radicalização islâmica no Norte de Moçambique, explorando a complexidade das dinâmicas não só na origem do grupo dos Al-Shabaab como também na estrutura do próprio conflito e violência em Cabo Delgado. Os autores consideram que o fenómeno exige uma pesquisa multidisciplinar aprofunda­da que tome em conta uma multiplicidade de factores de ordem histórica, social, política, económica e religiosa. Acesso à versão inglesa aqui. ----- This research report is a...