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Mozambique's Elite - Finding its Way in a Globalized World and Returning to Old Development Models

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  • Joseph Hanlon
  • Marcelo Mosse

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What makes elites developmental instead of predatory? We argue that Mozambique's elite was developmental at independence 35 years ago. With pressure and encouragement from international forces, it became predatory. It has now partly returned to its developmental roots and is trying to use the state to promote the creation of business groups that could be large enough and dynamic enough to follow a development model with some similarities to the Asian Tigers, industrial development in Latin America, or Volkskapitalisme in apartheid South Africa.

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  • Joseph Hanlon & Marcelo Mosse, 2010. "Mozambique's Elite - Finding its Way in a Globalized World and Returning to Old Development Models," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2010-105, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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