Aid, debt, and the end of sovereignty: Mozambique and its donors

The Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 407-430

  Plank, David N ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

AID DEPENDENCE; DEBT; DEBT PROBLEM; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DONOR-GOVERNMENT RELATIONS; ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; SOVEREIGNTY; SOVEREIGNTY ISSUE;

MOZAMBIQUE;

EID: 0027751448     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: 14697777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X00012015     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Sec, for example, Joseph Hanlon, Mozambique: who calls the shots? (London, 1991), and Merie L. Bowen, 'Beyond Reform: adjustment and political power in contemporary Mozambique’, in The Journal of Modem african Studies (Cambridge), 30, 2, June 1992, pp. 255–79.
2. The term 'donors’ is in many respects misleading, since the main multilateral agencies are lenders, while a lot of bilateral assistance stays for a relatively short time in the recipient country
3. For analyses of the colonial economy, see Thomas H. Henriksen, Mozambique: a history (London, 1978); Leroy Vail and Landeg White Capitalism and Colonialism in Mozambique: a study of Quelimane district (London and Minneapolis, 1980); Allen Isaacman and Barbara Isaacman, Mozambique: from colonisation to revolution, 1900-1982 (Boulder, 1983); and Joseph Hanlon, Mozambique: the revolution under fire (London, 1984).
4. Jens Erik Torp, L. M. Denny, and Donald Ray, Mozambique, Sao Tome Principe (London, 1989), p.30; Henriksen, op. cit. p. 226; and Hanlon, Mozambique: who calls the shots?, p. 10.
5. Mozambique, 'Policy Framework Paper, 1991-93’, Consultative Group, Paris, December 1991.
6. United Nations Development Programme/World Bank, African Development Indicators (Washington, DC, 1992), p. 159.
7. World Bank, World Development Report, 1991 (Washington, DC, 1991), pp. 250–1. The average debt burden for all countries in sub-Saharan Africa is approximately equal to annual G.N.P., and less than four times annual export earnings.
8. 'Policy Framework Paper, 1991-93’, p. 24, and Plano Económico e Social, 1992, p. 58.
9. Policy Framework Paper, 1992-94, p. 13.
10. See World Bank, The African Capacity Building Initiative: toward improved policy analysis and development management (Washington, DC, 1991),and World Development Report, 1992.
11. Cf. Basil Davidson, The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the curse of the nation-state (London and New York, 1992).