Suchergebnisse

Mozambique satisfies the three criteria that define 'turnaround': a durable cessation of violent conflict, sustained economic growth, and sustained improvements in human development indicators. Two factors explain, contributed to, and serve to sustain Mozambique's turnaround: (i) the implementation of relatively successful economic reforms, especially a structural adjustment programme, privatisation, financial sector reform, investment promotion, sound macroeconomic management, exchange, trade and price reforms, and public expenditure adjustment; and (ii) the introduction of political reforms, especially the approval of the 1990 constitution that enshrined liberal and multi-party democracy, the 1992 Rome peace agreement, the repatriation and resettlement of millions of refugees, multi-party democratic elections, democratisation, and public sector reforms. Each of these economic and political reforms has served to address the causes and consequences of civil war and the problems of promoting development and re-legitimising the Mozambican state. (IDS Bull/GIGA)