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Mozambique: Donors Imposed Policies On Mozambique, Chissano Admits

Source: AllAfrica.com

Speaking on 11 and 12 June 2007 at the British University city of Oxford at a conference on “New Directions in Development Assistance’, Mozambique’s former president, Joaquim Chissano, admitted that the foreign aid granted to Mozambique when he was in power “came with the imposition of prescriptions and the questioning of the predominant development paradigm”. Freed from the constraints of office, Chissano could now give his real opinion of the aid industry - and it is largely in line with what critics of the IMF, the World Bank and bilateral donors have been saying for many years.

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