Accumulation, social services and socialist transition in the third world

Reflections on decentralised planning based on the Mozambican experience

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20473730
AutoresMaureen Mackintosh (0000-0002-7000-4686, Kingston College), Marc Wuyts (Czech Academy of Sciences, Economics Institute)
Ano1988
Volume24
Fascículo4
Páginas136-179
Data de publicação1988-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Development Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-0388 • E-ISSN: 1743-9140
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00220388808422086
OpenAlexW2163426102
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas32

The purpose of this article is to argue for the viability, and the logic, of a distinctive approach to planning economic development and socialist transition in poor economies. The components of this distinctive approach are: more decentralised, and popularly‐based, planning and control of accumulation; the close interlinking of investment in social services and in rural production; and an emphasis on intervention in the market as a tool of socialist planning. The article therefore presents an argument about economic planning intended to be relevant to a range of countries with similar general aims and problems. However, the ideas are developed here, as they were in practice, through a reflection on our own understanding of planning andits problems in Mozambique during the first ten years of that country's independence.1

Argument (complex analysis) · Control (management) · Developing country · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic planning · Economic system · Economics · Independence (probability theory) · Intervention (counseling) · Investment (military) · Management · Market economy · Planned economy · Political science · Politics · Transition (genetics) · African history and culture studies · Local Economic Development and Planning · Urban and Rural Development Challenges