Blocking human potential: how formal policies block the informal economy in the Maputo corridor
Författare och institution:
Fredrik Söderbaum (Institutionen för globala studier, afrikastudier & Institutionen för globala studier, freds- och utvecklingsforskning)
Publicerad i:
Linking the formal and informal economy: concepts and policies [edited by Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Ravi Kanbur, and Elinor Ostrom], Oxford : Oxford University Press,
ISBN:
978-0-19-920476-2, 0-19-920476-4
Publikationstyp:
Kapitel
Publiceringsår:
2006
Språk:
engelska
Sammanfattning (abstract):
This paper deals with one of the most interesting cross-border micro-regions in Africa: the Maputo corridor. In the mid-1990s, the governments of South Africa and Mozambique agreed to reconstruct the Maputo corridor through the implementation of the Maputo Development Corridor (MDC) and its gigantic portfolio of large-scale private investment projects. The analysis shows that the MDC is designed for the purpose of crowding-in external capital in order to build industrial and infrastructural mega-projects such as the USD 2 billion Mozal aluminium smelter, whereas the endogenous capacities and entrepreneurship of the people living in the corridor are largely neglected or even seen as problematic. Hence, the fundamental problem with the MDC lies in its bias towards a capital-intensive industrialization strategy, which fails to utilize and unlock the human potential of Mozambiques population and its informal economy.
Ämne (baseras på Högskoleverkets indelning av forskningsämnen):
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Freds- och utvecklingsforskning
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Tvärvetenskapliga studier ->
Freds- och utvecklingsforskning
Nyckelord:
informal economy, informal trade, Maputo Development Corridor, MDC, Spatial Development Initiative, SDI
Ytterligare information:
(Series statement from jacket:) The contributions were originally presented at a conference organized in Helsinki in September 2004 by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) in collaboration with the Expert Group on Development Issues (EGDI) at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Postens nummer:
36399
Posten skapad:
2007-02-21 13:05
Posten ändrad:
2008-11-21 10:59