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Mozambique, the troubled transition

From Socialist Construction to Free Market Capitalism

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What happened to Mozambique's development? How have international, regional, national and local factors interacted to shape policies and outcomes? What are the implications for people's livelihoods of this transition to market capitalism? What are the prospects for pursuing such a strategy in a country with almost no indigenous capital-owning and entrepreneurial class? Are there lessons to be learned for other impoverished Third World societies? These are just some of the questions explored in this book which combines much new economic information with a willingness to question hitherto accepted assumptions about modern Mozambican history.