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Power without responsibility: the World Bank & Mozambican cashew nuts

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Mozambique's cashew nut production failed to recover after the 1982–92 war, with serious implications for peasant producers and workers in the country's single largest industry. Cashew has the potential to regain its role as a major sector of the Mozambican economy, and this article looks at the fundamental problems relating to the growing and processing of cashew. Next, the article shows how contradictory World Bank‐imposed policies prevented Mozambique from resolving these problems. Cashew shows that World Bank staff sometimes have unchecked power to impose policies on poor countries, with no need to justify their actions. The article concludes by asking if the World Bank can be sole judge of the success of its policies.

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  • Joseph Hanlon, 2000. "Power without responsibility: the World Bank & Mozambican cashew nuts," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(83), pages 29-45.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:27:y:2000:i:83:p:29-45
    DOI: 10.1080/03056240008704431
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    1. Joseph Hanlon, 2012. "Governance as 'Kicking Away the Ladder'," New Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(5), pages 691-698, November.
    2. G. Harrison, 2001. "Peasants, the agrarian question and lenses of development," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 1(3), pages 187-203, July.
    3. Joseph Hanlon & Marcelo Mosse, 2010. "Mozambique's Elite - Finding its Way in a Globalized World and Returning to Old Development Models," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2010-105, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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