Political Geography: Mozambique - CIAO Search Results

Author:: Abebe Shimeles and Arne Bigsten
Publication Date:: 07-2004
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: United Nations University
Abstract:: This paper examines trends in income distribution and its linkages to economic growth and poverty reduction in order to understand the prospects for achieving poverty reduction in Africa. We examine the levels and trends in income distribution in some African countries and calculate pro-poor growth indices. Different growth patterns are simulated for Ethiopia, Uganda, Mozambique, and South Africa. We conclude that the balance between policies aimed at growth and measures aimed at redistribution should depend on the elasticity of the growth-equity tradeoff. We also discuss what the appropriate ingredients of a pro-poor strategy would be in the African setting.
Topic:: Economics, Human Welfare, and Poverty
Political Geography:: Uganda, Africa, South Africa, Mozambique, and Ethiopia

Author:: Terrence Lyons
Publication Date:: 02-2002
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University
Abstract:: Outcomes of transitional periods after peace agreements to halt civil wars are critical to sustaining peace and providing the basis for a long-term process of democratization. Understanding these transitional processes and designing policies to promote successful peace implementation are among the greatest challenges of the post–Cold War era. In a number of recent cases, including Angola (1992), Cambodia (1993), El Salvador (1994), Mozambique (1994), Bosnia-Herzegovina (1996), and Liberia (1997), elections have been designated in the peace accord as the mechanism for ending the transition. Such postconflict elections are designed to advance two distinct but interrelated goals – war termination and democratization.
Topic:: Conflict Resolution, Democratization, Government, and Peace Studies
Political Geography:: Bosnia, Herzegovina, Cambodia, Liberia, Mozambique, and Angola

Author:: Jørgen Elklit and Andrew Reynolds
Publication Date:: 09-2000
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Abstract:: In this paper we attempt to push the development of a new subfield of research in the field of democratization and institutional design, which is the relationship between the institutionalization of electoral politics (and in particular the administration of elections) and the emergence of democracy in the developing world. This new avenue of research represents an important advance in the study of causal relationships, which so far has either been completely neglected in the democratization canon or has only been given dramatically insufficient attention.
Topic:: Democratization, Government, and Politics
Political Geography:: South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Ghana, and Botswana

Publication Date:: 08-2000
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: The Carter Center
Abstract:: Shortly after Mozambique gained independence in 1975, civil war erupted and continued to rage for the next 16 years. In 1992 a peace agreement was negotiated, and in 1994 the country's first multiparty elections were held under U.N. auspices. President Joaquim Chissano and the ruling Frelimo party won the presidency and a majority in Parliament. Renamo, the former guerilla movement headed by Afonso Dhlakama, received nearly 34 percent of the presidential ballots and won 112 of the 250 seats in parliament.
Topic:: Democratization and Development
Political Geography:: Africa, United Nations, and Mozambique

Author:: Tony Addison
Publication Date:: 10-1998
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: United Nations University
Abstract:: Reconstructing Africa's war damaged economies is an urgent task. This is especially so in a group of countries - Angola, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique - which must also complete their economic and political transition from state socialism. Somalia, which shares their common history, must eventually be rebuilt. All of these countries must address their deep problems of underdevelopment and poverty. The challenges are therefore three-fold: to overcome underdevelopment, to make the transition from state socialism, and to reconstruct economies and societies.
Topic:: Democratization, Development, Economics, and Emerging Markets
Political Geography:: Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Somalia, Angola, Eritrea, and Guinea-Bissau

Author:: Marta Martinelli
Publication Date:: 03-1998
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Danish Institute for International Studies
Abstract:: In 1993 Bouthros Bouthros-Ghali expressed his admiration for the methods performed by a group of Catholic peace-lovers, called Community of Sant'Egidio, in their attempts at mediating a deep rooted conflict like the one in Mozambique. He said: " The Community of Sant'Egidio has developed techniques which are different but at the same time complementary to those performed by professional peace-makers. The Community has discreetly worked in Mozambique for years, towards a peaceful adjustment to the situation...It has practised its techniques characterised by confidentiality and informality, together and in harmony with the official work of international governments and inter-governmental organisations. Starting from the Mozambican experience the term "Italian formula" is used to explain this mixture, unique in its kind, of commitment to peace, governmental and not. Respect for the parties to the conflict and all those involved in the field is fundamental for these initiatives to be successful"
Topic:: Conflict Resolution, Diplomacy, and Peace Studies
Political Geography:: Africa, Italy, and Mozambique

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