Clean‐ups, conditionality &amp; adjustment: why institutions matter in Mozambique

Harrison, Graham E.

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Volume 26, Issue 81

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Clean‐ups, conditionality & adjustment: why institutions matter in Mozambique

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Author(s): Graham Harrison ^a

Publication date (Print): September 1999

Journal: Review of African Political Economy

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This article critically evaluates the nature of administrative reform in the context of conditionality and structural adjustment. Structural adjustment programmes constitute the broader environment and prioritisations within which donors and creditors support institutional reform. This raises the questions concerning the ownership and purpose of reform, especially if one bears in mind the substantial inequality of power between individual severely‐indebted states and multilateral creditors which enjoy the alignment of many bilateral donors behind their prognoses. One can identify some of the contradictions that this relationship produces through an examination of Mozambique's experience with donors in respect to corruption and anti‐corruption strategies. Here, corruption constitutes part of the politics of adjustment, and the reforms which are to tackle it have to work on an institutional terrain which has already been subjected to the disintegrative effects of a decade of adjustment and minimally‐controlled donor influence. All of this renders the idea — often at the base of much donor thinking concerning reform — of a stable and enlightened leadership motivated to implement rational/technical reform throughout government at best a simplification and at worst a misrepresentation.

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Title: Review of African Political Economy

Publisher: Review of African Political Economy

ISSN (Print): 0305-6244

ISSN (Electronic): 1740-1720

Publication date (Print): September 1999

Volume: 26

Issue: 81

Pages: 323-333

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^a Department of Politics , University of Sheffield

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Publisher ID: 8704396 Coden ID: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 26, No. 81, September 1999, pp. 323-333

DOI: 10.1080/03056249908704396

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[1] Abrahamsson H and Nilsson A. . 1992. . “‘Power and Powerlessness in a Starving Mozambique’. ”. Gothenburg :

[2] Bayart J‐F, Ellis S and Hibou B. . 1999. . The Criminalization of the State in Africa . , Oxford : : James Currey. .

[3] Baylies C. . 1995. . ‘"Political Conditionality” and Democratisation’. . Review of African Political Economy . , Vol. 22((65))

[4] Crown Agents. . 1998. . Public Sector Reform. Efficient and Effective Government . Maputo :

[5] Economist Intelligence Unit. . 1998. . Mozambique/Malawi Country Report. . 4th Quarter . , Vol. 1998((12))

[6] Gibbon P. . 1993. . ‘The World Bank and the New Politics of Aid’. . European Journal of Development Research . , Vol. 5((1))

[7] Sørensen G.. , ed. Special issue on Political Conditionality .

[8] Goudie A and Stasavage D. . 1996. . “‘A Framework for the Analysis of Corruption’. ”. Paris : : OECD. .

[9] Gould D and Amaro‐Reyes J. . 1983. . “‘The Effects of Corruption on Administrative Performance: Illustrations from Developing Countries’. ”. In World Bank Staff Working Papers . , Washington : : 580. .

[10] Groenendijk N. . 1997. . ‘A Principal‐Agent Model of Corruption’. . Crime, Law and Social Changer . , Vol. 27:

[11] Hanlon J. . 1991. . Mozambique: Who Calls the Shots? . , London : : James Currey. .

[12] 1996. . Peace without Profit. How the IMF Blocks Rebuilding in Mozambique . , Oxford : : James Currey. .

[13] Sogge David. , ed. 1997. . “‘Its the IMF that runs Mozambique’. ”. In Mozambique: Perspectives on Aid and the Civil Sector . , p. 20––21. . Amsterdam : : GOM. .

[14] Harrison G. . 1999. . ‘"Corruption as ‘Boundary Politics”: the State, Democratization and Mozambique's Unstable Liberalization’. . Third World Quarterly . , Vol. 22((3))

[15] Johnston M. . 1991. . ‘Political Corruption: Historic Conflict and the Rise of Standards’. . Journal of Democracy . , Vol. 2((4))

[16] Klitgaard R. . 1989. . ‘Incentive Myopia’. . World Development . , Vol. 17((4))

[17] Lindauer D and Nunberg B. , eds. 1994. . Rehabilitating Government: Pay and Employment Reform in Africa . , Washington DC : : World Bank. .

[18] Parfitt T. . 1991. . ‘Corruption, Adjustment and the African Debt’. . Corruption and Reform . , Vol. 6((1))

[19] Philp M. . 1997. . ‘Defining Political Corruption’. . Political Studies . , Vol. XIV:

[20] Raikes P and Gibbon P. . 1996. . “‘Tanzania 1986–1994’. ”. In Limits of Adjustment in Africa . , Edited by: Engberg P. . Oxford : : James Currey. .

[21] Riley S. . 1993. . ‘Post‐independence anti‐corruption strategies and the contemporary effects of democratization’. . Corruption and Reform . , Vol. 4:: 249––261. .

[22] Szeftel M. . 1998. . ‘Misunderstanding African Politics: Corruption and the Governance Agenda’. . Review of African Political Economy . , Vol. 25((76))

[23] UI Haque N and Sahay R. . 1996. . ‘Do Government Wage Cuts Close Budget Deficits? Costs of Corruption’. . IMF Staff Papers . , Vol. 43((4))

[24] World Bank. . 1993. . “‘Mozambique: Vision Document’. ”. Maputo :

[25] 1994. . Adjustment in Africa. Reforms, Results and the Road Ahead . , Oxford : : Oxford University Press. .

[26] Wuyts M. . 1995. . ‘Negotiating and Managing Public Expenditures: Mozambique's Experience with Public Expenditure Reviews’, The Hague: Institute of Social Studies; (1996), ‘Foreign Aid, Structural Adjustment and Public Management: the Mozambican Experience’. . Development and Change . , Vol. 27: