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990382
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b744752
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Pitcher, M. Anne.
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Transforming Mozambique : : the politics of privatization, 1975-2000 /\ M. Anne Pitcher.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2002.
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| Series Statement
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African studies series ;; 104
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1 online resource (xxiii, 293 pages) :: illustrations, map.
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| ISBN
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0511061706
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: 0511491085
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: 0521052688
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: 0521820111
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: 9780511061707
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: 9780511491085
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: 9780521052689
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: 9780521820110
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0521820111
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-286) and index.
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| Contents
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The reconfiguration of the interventionist state after independence -- Demiurge ascending: high modernism and the making of Mozambique -- State sector erosion and the turn to the market -- A privatizing state or a statist privatization? -- Continuities and discontinuities in manufacturing -- Capital and countryside after structural adjustment -- The end of Marx and the beginning of the market? Rhetorical efforts to legitimate transformative preservation.
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| Abstract
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Many of the economic transformations in Africa have been as dramatic as those in Eastern Europe. Yet much of the comparative literature on transitions has overlooked African countries. This 2002 study of Mozambique's shift from a command to a market economy draws on a wealth of empirical material, including archival sources, interviews, political posters and corporate advertisements, to reveal that the state is a central actor in the reform process, despite the claims of neo-liberals and their critics. Alongside the state, social forces - from World Bank officials to rural smallholders - have.
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Privatization-- Mozambique.
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Structural adjustment (Economic policy)-- Mozambique.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Development-- Business Development.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Development-- Economic Development.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Development-- General.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Government Business.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Structural Adjustment.
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Business Economics.
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Economic History.
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Economic policy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Economic Policy.
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Privatization.
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Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
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Mozambique, Economic policy.
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Mozambique.
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| Dewey Classification
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338.9679
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| LC Classification
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HC890.P58 2002eb
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