Mozambique: Balancing Development, Politics and Security

By Chatham House
Updated: 02/08/2011

mozambiqueBy Jeremy Astill-Brown and Markus Weimer. Chatham House, August 2010.

Mozambique’s two decade arc of stabilization and poverty reduction are giving way to rising social discontent. Development strategies should be modified to confront newly emerging security and governance challenges. A top priority will be building legitimate state institutions that can resist a rapid rise in organized crime, reverse an increasingly constrictive political environment, and adjust economic growth plans that will likely provide few opportunities for Mozambique’s poor.

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