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By the mid-1980s, Mozambique faced a full-fledged economic collapse. The Mozambican government unveiled an orthodox structural adjustment programme in early 1987, after four years of complex discussions with donor community members and the IMF/World Bank. According to the author, most Mozambicans found themselves cumulatively poorer as the first Economic Recovery Programme (PRE) unfolded from 1987-89. She looks at popular reaction to the PRE, the shifting configuration of power and privilege, pressure from peasants, emergence of a co-operative movement as an important force among other issues. (DÜI-Sen)

The author describes the difficulties in organizing adult literacy in South Africa with special reference to the English Literacy Project (ELP) of COSATU, dimensions of illiteracy, issues concerning language policy, the role of civil society in providing literacy, funding problems of the progressive literacy organizations among other topics. (DÜI-Sen)

This article analyses the social costs of Mozambique's Economic Recovery Programme, sponsored by the World Bank and introduced in 1987. The programme has had some success in arresting economic decline, though not as fast as anticipated. However, social differentiation has increased, with traders, large farmers, corrupt state and military officials and private entrepreneurs gaining from the changes, while women, children and the poor in particular are finding their standards of living dropping sharply with devastating consequences for their health and nutritional status. The article uses the findings of research studies and interviews with urban dwellers on the issues of food supply, education and health to support this analysis. The loss to the IMF and the World Bank of Mozambican control over economic policy, the increase in human suffering with its potential for social and political breakdown, and the appropriateness of the programme in conditions of war, are the three central issues which have to be faced by proponents of this kind of adjustment.

Social costs of IMF and World Bank programs; findings on the issues of education, health, and food supply.

Analyse der sozialen Kosten der seit 1987 unter Federführung der Weltbank in Mosambik durchgeführten wirtschaftlichen Reformprogramme. Wirtschaftliche Erfolge waren bescheiden, soziale Gegensätze wuchsen. Profitiert haben Händler, Großbauern, korrupte Beamte und Privatunternehmer. Die Studie untersucht die entstandenen Mängel in den Bereichen Nahrungsmittelversorgung, Erziehung und Gesundheitswesen. Gefährlich ist auch der Verlust der nationalen Kontrolle über die Wirtschaftspolitik. (DÜI-Wsl)

The article looks at the 5th Congress of the Frelimo held from July 24 to 30, 1989. The readiness of Frelimo to negotiate with the Renamo for peace. Far-reaching policy changes adopted at the Congress. The effects of Low Intensity Warfare (LIW). Prevailing climate of war-weariness. (DÜI-Sen)

Bericht über die Reise einer kanadischen Delegation zur Erkundung der aktuellen Lage in Mosambik. Gespräche mit Politikern und Besichtigungen vor Ort ergeben den Eindruck einer dramatisch zugespitzten Krisensituation (Hungerkatastrophen, Flüchtlingselend, hohe Sterblichkeitsrate). Die kriegerischen Auseinandersetzungen mit der von der RSA unterstützten Widerstandsbewegung RNM verschärft die durch Dürre und wirtschaftliche Fehlkonzeptionen ohnehin schwierige Lage. (DÜI-Fwr)

Vergleich der innenpolitischen Entwicklung in Mosambik mit der Situation in Nikaragua. Als Ursachen für die mangelnde Stabilität werden Schwächen in der Politik der FRELIMO herausgestellt. Vernachlässigung der ländlichen Gebiete, Fehlentwicklungen in der Agrarpolitik und mangelnde politische Aufklärungsarbeit und Bewußtseinsbildung verhinderten eine breite Mobilisierung der Bevölkerung. Im Gegensatz dazu wird die Unterstützung der Regierung durch die Bevölkerung in Nikaragua als Erfolg der politischen Führung eingeschätzt

Judith Marshall examines the different interests of international capitalism and the politically powerful groups among the Ghanaian petty bourgeoisie in Ghana since 1960. She analyzes the conflicting and complementary relations among them, and compares the specific policies of successive regimes in Ghana, military and civilian. She shows that progressive plans for transformation of the neo‐colonial political economy could not succeed without an adequate class base and mass mobilization. While international capital has been able to profit from the changing policies of successive regimes it has been unable to establish stable conditions for its own domination, and the perpetuation of the privileges of its local partners. The continued failures of capitalist development strategies sustain the relevance of radical alternatives, as they did during the Nkrumah period.

This book explores the relations between literacy and "people's power" in the context of Mozambique's project of socialist construction. The author analyzes the meanings and practices of literacy for women and men in a factory setting through an ethnography of Matola Industrial Company (CIM) in the mid-1980s and examines how they made sense of literacy and used it in their daily lives. Her investigation probes the extent to which the government literacy programmes served as a tool for more active workers' voices in the shifting power configurations of factory and community, situated within the larger context of Mozambique's move to a socialist development path. (DÜI-Hff)

In this book, the author examines whether structural adjustment can succeed in a war-devastated country like Mozambique. In particular, she analyses the social impact of the Economic Recovery Program (1987-89) and the succeeding Economic and Social Recovery Program (1990-92) and focuses on food security, family survival, education, health and finally Mozambican sovereignty. One chapter examines the role of development aid taking the Canadian assistance as an example. (DÜI-Hff)

Beyond capitalism vs. socialism in Kenya and Tanzania. / Ed. by Joel D. Barkan. - London : Lynne-Rienner Publishers, 1994. + Forrest, Tom: Politics and economic development in Nigeria. - Boulder/Colo. : Westview Press, 1993. + Marshall, Judith: Literacy, power and democracy in Mozambique. The governance of learning from colonization to the present. - Boulder/Colo. : Westview Press, 1993. + Enthält Rezensionen von: Africa. Dilemmas of development and change. / Ed. by Peter Lewis. - Boulder/Colo. : Westview Press, 1998

ABSTRACTThis study develops and tests a path model relating organizational policy, work experience, job characteristics and personal attributes to one another and to commitment. The model was tested on a sample of 406 top managers in the Canadian Public Service. Organizational policy was found to affect work experience and job characteristics. Job characteristics also affected work experience which affected commitment. Hypothesized relationships between policy and commitment, job characteristics and commitment, and personal characteristics and commitment were not supported.RésuméCette recherche développe et met à l'épreuve un modèle graphique qui relie les politiques organisationelles, l'expérience de travail, les caractéristiques d'un travail et les attributs personnels les uns aux autres, et qui relie ces quatre unités aux obligations de travail. On a mis le modèle à l'essai pour un échantillon de 406 gestionnaires dans la Fonction publique du Canada. Les résultats ont démontré que les politiques organisationnelles ont un effet sur l'expérience de travail et sur les caractéristiques de l'emploi. Les caractéristiques d'un emploi influent sur l'expérience, qui a un effet sur les obligations de travail. On a formulé des hypothèses sur les rapports entre les politiques et les obligations, entre les caractéristiques du travail et les obligations, et entre les attributs personnels et les obligations, mais ces hypothèses n'ont pas résisté aux épreuves.