Joseph Hanlon
Biographic Data
| ID | 93324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Hanlon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Hanlon |
| SIGNATURE | HANLON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 308 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Frelimo fights Mozambique’s young people
Turning Mozambique into a mafia, resource-cursed state
Gas, rubies and other minerals have proved a curse for most Mozambicans. Poverty and inequality have increased. Despite its resource wealth, Mozambique remains one of the poorest countries in the world, falling ever lower on the Human Development Index. But an elite has become wealthy. There is now a civil war in Cabo Delgado province, which has the gas and rubies - and also the worst poverty
Bangladesh farmers push for temporary flooding to correct Dutch polder failure
Controlling floods and raising rice production in Bangladesh have been the centres of struggle for nearly a century—between North and South, and between engineering solutions and local knowledge. Decades of disastrous construction of dikes and polders led first to local protests, including cutting dikes, and then to a structured local solution known as tidal river management, which won the support of Bangladeshi scientists and academics. Suddenly…
Who will make the ‘best’ use of Africa’s land? Lessons from Zimbabwe
Conflict over African land – between smallholders and large industrial farmers and between domestic farmers and global agribusinesses – raises key questions about who will make the best use of African land and which farmers do most to decrease poverty and produce more food, industrial inputs and exports. Zimbabwe has already gone through two major changes in land occupation, and thus provides an important test of what is the ‘best’ use of the lan…
Governance as ‘Kicking Away the Ladder
The label ‘poor governance’ throws together real evils such as corruption and rent-seeking with a new group of alleged evils which are actually good for development, including a role for the state in the economy and support for domestic capital. Successful development policies of Europe in the late nineteenth century and the Asian Tigers and Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century are now labelled as ‘poor governance.’ This is what Ha-…
War veterans in Zimbabwe's revolution: Challenging neo-colonialism and settler and international capital
War veterans in Zimbabwe's revolution: challenging neo-colonialism and settler and international capital, by Zvakanyorwa Wilbert Sadomba, Harare, Weaver Press; Woodbridge, James Currey, xii + 247 p...
Whose Wealth Is It Anyway? Mozambique's Outstanding Economic Growth with Worsening Rural Poverty
Despite rapid economic growth and massive inflows of aid, rural poverty in Mozambique is worsening. Agricultural production and productivity have not increased in the last decade. Use of chemical fertilizers and other modern technology is at a low level and decreasing. The present development model emphasizes that the role of government and donors is to provide human capital and infrastructure, while the private sector is responsible for economic…
Just Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global South
Amid all the complicated economic theories about the causes and solutions to poverty, one idea is so basic that it seems radical: bypass governments and NGOs, provide direct cash transfers, and let the poor decide how to use their money. Discussing this alternative, looking at both problems and successes and stressing that cash transfers are neither charity nor a safety net, the authors provide a compelling overview of practices that actually wor…
Frelimo landslide in tainted election in Mozambique
Mozambique's president Armando Guebuza was re-elected president on 28 October 2009 with a record vote of nearly 3 million. But the election was tainted by misconduct, unfairness, and secrecy that brought sharp criticism from domestic and international observers, and which seemed pointless and unnecessary
Mozambique: The War Ended 17 Years Ago, but We Are Still Poor
Mozambique, an aid darling, poses some stark questions for development cooperation. Current economic management strategies mean that a growing group of young people are leaving school with a basic education but no economic prospects. Will 'marginal' youth in towns and cities pose a threat of political and criminal violence? Can peace be built on poverty and rising inequality? Are elections and expanded schooling enough when there are no jobs
Mozambique: The Panic and Rage of the Poor
Frighted poor people in Mozambique have killed Red Cross volunteers and police who they accuse of spreading cholera. There are lynchings of susepcted criminals in dense suburban neighbourhoods. These incidents appear to reflect the fear of very poor people, and stresses of living under unremitting poverty
The Impact of International Debt Relief by A. Geske Dijkstra
Does Foreign Aid Really Work? by Roger C. Riddell
Fixing Failed States - A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World by Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart
Aid & Influence: Do Donors Help or Hinder? by Stephen Browne
Illegitimate’ loans: Lenders, not borrowers, are responsible
Debt relief has focused on the borrower—debt is cancelled if a country is too poor to repay and now has acceptable policies. Iraq shifted the focus to the lender—debt should be cancelled because creditors should never have lent money to the repressive regime. This paper uses domestic and international law to establish the concept of ‘illegitimate debt’, which should not be repaid independent of the status of the borrower. The concept of ‘moral ha…
Is the international community helping to recreate the preconditions for war in Sierra Leone
“In a very real sense, the conditions that spawned the war and inflicted gruesome casualties on Sierra Leone's citizens have not disappeared”, the International Crisis Group has warned. In this paper we argue that many of those conditions are being recreated. The same old men who were responsible for the war are still in power, both in government and in a reinstated chieftaincy system, and corruption is still endemic, while young people remain jo…
Postconflict Development: Meeting New Challenges
With the proliferation of civil wars since the end of the Cold War, many developing countries now exist in a "postconflict" environment, posing enormous development challenges for the societies affected, as well as for international actors. Postconflict Development addresses these challenges in a range of vital sectors—security, justice, economic policy, education, the media, agriculture, health, and the environment in countries around the globe.…
Do donors promote corruption: The case of Mozambique
Donors inveigh against corruption, yet give more aid to corrupt governments. Debate continues on the causes of developing country corruption, but with little consideration of the possibility that the behaviour of donors may unintentionally promote corruption. This article looks at the example of Mozambique, where corruption grew rapidly in the 1990s. It argues that the donor community is prepared to tolerate quite blatant corruption if the elite …
Renewed land debate and the 'cargo cult' in Mozambique
Land is again the subject of debate in Mozambique. The 1997 land law was passed following widespread consultation in one of the most democratic processes in Mozambique in the 1990s, and the law won praise for protecting peasant rights while creating space for outside investment. This balance is now being questioned. The law gives communities the right to delimit and register their land; once registered, potential investors need to negotiate with …
It is Possible to Just Give Money to the Poor
Meghnad Desai of the London School of Economics recently suggested that, rather than 'giving fifty billion dollars of overseas aid', we should simply 'find the poor and give them one dollar a week ... That would probably do more to relieve poverty than anything else'. Two experiences in Mozambique of simply handing out money show this is possible. Payments to demobilized soldiers over a two year period and single payments to flood victims were of…
Debate intensifies over adjustment & press freedom in Mozambique
A criminal slander action brought by the son of the president of Mozambique against a journalist and the children of an assassinated editor have brought to the surface debates on race, development strategy and the role of the press. These are taking place in the shadow of Zimbabwe and in the context of international donors wanting to give more money to Mozambique because it is seen as a success story of World Bank and IMF policies.
Bank corruption becomes site of struggle in Mozambique
Three people have been murdered for investigating corruption in the Mozambican banking system and the loss of more than $400 million. All countries use banks politically, and in Mozambique, the banks were first used to build socialism, then to keep the country running during the war, and finally in the new capitalist era to promote local entrepreneurs and keep the economy out of foreign hands. But the nature of socialist banking and the process o…
Mozambique and the Great Flood of 2000
Mozambique: The Torturous Road to Democracy
Peace without profit: How the IMF blocks rebuilding in Mozambique
"Where is the boom which should have followed the end of Mozambique's war? Post-war reconstruction is slow. The economic crisis continues. Peasants returned to the countryside; nobody came to buy their crops. Workers went back to their factories; there was no money to buy their products." "History demonstrates that deflation is the opposite of what is needed. Mozambique has followed the IMF/World Bank prescription of structural adjustment: free m…
Mozambique: Who Calls the Shots?
Mozambique: Who Calls the Shots
Beggar your neighbours: Apartheid power in Southern Africa
Is the international community helping to recreate the preconditions for war in Sierra Leone
“In a very real sense, the conditions that spawned the war and inflicted gruesome casualties on Sierra Leone's citizens have not disappeared”, the International Crisis Group has warned. In this paper we argue that many of those conditions are being recreated. The same old men who were responsible for the war are still in power, both in government and in a reinstated chieftaincy system, and corruption is still endemic, while young people remain jo…
Mozambique and the Great Flood of 2000
Do donors promote corruption: The case of Mozambique
Donors inveigh against corruption, yet give more aid to corrupt governments. Debate continues on the causes of developing country corruption, but with little consideration of the possibility that the behaviour of donors may unintentionally promote corruption. This article looks at the example of Mozambique, where corruption grew rapidly in the 1990s. It argues that the donor community is prepared to tolerate quite blatant corruption if the elite …
Power without responsibility: The World Bank & Mozambican cashew nuts
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 Mo…
Whose Wealth Is It Anyway? Mozambique's Outstanding Economic Growth with Worsening Rural Poverty
Despite rapid economic growth and massive inflows of aid, rural poverty in Mozambique is worsening. Agricultural production and productivity have not increased in the last decade. Use of chemical fertilizers and other modern technology is at a low level and decreasing. The present development model emphasizes that the role of government and donors is to provide human capital and infrastructure, while the private sector is responsible for economic…
War veterans in Zimbabwe's revolution: Challenging neo-colonialism and settler and international capital
War veterans in Zimbabwe's revolution: challenging neo-colonialism and settler and international capital, by Zvakanyorwa Wilbert Sadomba, Harare, Weaver Press; Woodbridge, James Currey, xii + 247 p...
Mozambique: The War Ended 17 Years Ago, but We Are Still Poor
Mozambique, an aid darling, poses some stark questions for development cooperation. Current economic management strategies mean that a growing group of young people are leaving school with a basic education but no economic prospects. Will 'marginal' youth in towns and cities pose a threat of political and criminal violence? Can peace be built on poverty and rising inequality? Are elections and expanded schooling enough when there are no jobs
It is Possible to Just Give Money to the Poor
Meghnad Desai of the London School of Economics recently suggested that, rather than 'giving fifty billion dollars of overseas aid', we should simply 'find the poor and give them one dollar a week ... That would probably do more to relieve poverty than anything else'. Two experiences in Mozambique of simply handing out money show this is possible. Payments to demobilized soldiers over a two year period and single payments to flood victims were of…
Mozambique: The Panic and Rage of the Poor
Frighted poor people in Mozambique have killed Red Cross volunteers and police who they accuse of spreading cholera. There are lynchings of susepcted criminals in dense suburban neighbourhoods. These incidents appear to reflect the fear of very poor people, and stresses of living under unremitting poverty
Renewed land debate and the 'cargo cult' in Mozambique
Land is again the subject of debate in Mozambique. The 1997 land law was passed following widespread consultation in one of the most democratic processes in Mozambique in the 1990s, and the law won praise for protecting peasant rights while creating space for outside investment. This balance is now being questioned. The law gives communities the right to delimit and register their land; once registered, potential investors need to negotiate with …
Bank corruption becomes site of struggle in Mozambique
Three people have been murdered for investigating corruption in the Mozambican banking system and the loss of more than $400 million. All countries use banks politically, and in Mozambique, the banks were first used to build socialism, then to keep the country running during the war, and finally in the new capitalist era to promote local entrepreneurs and keep the economy out of foreign hands. But the nature of socialist banking and the process o…
Governance as ‘Kicking Away the Ladder
The label ‘poor governance’ throws together real evils such as corruption and rent-seeking with a new group of alleged evils which are actually good for development, including a role for the state in the economy and support for domestic capital. Successful development policies of Europe in the late nineteenth century and the Asian Tigers and Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century are now labelled as ‘poor governance.’ This is what Ha-…
Frelimo landslide in tainted election in Mozambique
Mozambique's president Armando Guebuza was re-elected president on 28 October 2009 with a record vote of nearly 3 million. But the election was tainted by misconduct, unfairness, and secrecy that brought sharp criticism from domestic and international observers, and which seemed pointless and unnecessary
Post‐apartheid South Africa and its neighbours
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Beggar Your Neighbours: Apartheid Power in Southern Africa
Who will make the ‘best’ use of Africa’s land? Lessons from Zimbabwe
Conflict over African land – between smallholders and large industrial farmers and between domestic farmers and global agribusinesses – raises key questions about who will make the best use of African land and which farmers do most to decrease poverty and produce more food, industrial inputs and exports. Zimbabwe has already gone through two major changes in land occupation, and thus provides an important test of what is the ‘best’ use of the lan…
Successes and Future Prospects of Sanctions Against South Africa
Without sanctions, Nelson Mandela would not yet be free. Without sanctions, Namibia would not yet be independent. Sanctions were not the most important reason for either event, but sanctions were crucial in providing an extra push. They sped up the events leading to the release of Mandela and the independence of Namibia. And sanctions will continue to play an important role in accelerating progress toward genuine majority rule in South Africa. In…
Turning Mozambique into a mafia, resource-cursed state
Gas, rubies and other minerals have proved a curse for most Mozambicans. Poverty and inequality have increased. Despite its resource wealth, Mozambique remains one of the poorest countries in the world, falling ever lower on the Human Development Index. But an elite has become wealthy. There is now a civil war in Cabo Delgado province, which has the gas and rubies - and also the worst poverty
Does Foreign Aid Really Work? by Roger C. Riddell
Mozambique: The Torturous Road to Democracy
Mozambique wins long battle over cashew nuts & sugar
Beggar your neighbours: Apartheid power in Southern Africa
Sanctions
The move towards sanctions against South Africa may be glacially slow, but there clearly is now movement. Joseph Hanlon suggests that it is time to look more closely at the goals of sanctions, as well as at the key role to be played by TNCS
Post‐apartheid South Africa and its neighbours
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Beggar Your Neighbours: Apartheid Power in Southern Africa
Mosambik, Revolution im Kreuzfeuer
Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" analyses legal and constitutional developments in all states or regions outside of Europe as well as their regional and international integration. Founded in 1968 and inspired by decolonization and the idea of a cooperative new beginning, the Journal also promotes a special interest in contributions on 'Law and development'. The journal aims to provide a forum for a variety of perspectives on th…
Beggar Your Neighbours: Apartheid Power in Southern Africa
Successes and Future Prospects of Sanctions Against South Africa
Without sanctions, Nelson Mandela would not yet be free. Without sanctions, Namibia would not yet be independent. Sanctions were not the most important reason for either event, but sanctions were crucial in providing an extra push. They sped up the events leading to the release of Mandela and the independence of Namibia. And sanctions will continue to play an important role in accelerating progress toward genuine majority rule in South Africa. In…
Mozambique: Who Calls the Shots?
Renamo: Terrorism in Mozambique
this study will testify to the nature of Renamo's chaotic search for power as Mozambique moves from Afro-Marxist policies toward a more democratic multiparty state. --Choice... an invaluable contribution to understanding why things are so bad and providing some glimmering of how a solution might be found... provides a uniquely useful light on Renamo's murky origins and the means by which it manages to sustain itself. --Africa Analysis... Alex Vin…
South Africa: The Sanctions Report, Documents and Statistics
South Africa: The Sanctions Report - Documents and Statistics
Mozambique: Who Calls the Shots
Peace without profit: How the IMF blocks rebuilding in Mozambique
"Where is the boom which should have followed the end of Mozambique's war? Post-war reconstruction is slow. The economic crisis continues. Peasants returned to the countryside; nobody came to buy their crops. Workers went back to their factories; there was no money to buy their products." "History demonstrates that deflation is the opposite of what is needed. Mozambique has followed the IMF/World Bank prescription of structural adjustment: free m…
African debt hoax
But debt relief is calculated in secret. Executive directors of the IMF and World Bank who approved the package on 7 April were not told what the actual debt relief would be, and had to accept claims from officials that Mozambique would receive a good deal. In fact, Mozambique gained almost nothing; debt service postHIPC will be little less than it was before. More than $2bn in debt HAS been written off. But it was debt that Mozambique would neve…
Power without responsibility: The World Bank & Mozambican cashew nuts
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 Mo…
Mozambique wins long battle over cashew nuts & sugar
Debate intensifies over adjustment & press freedom in Mozambique
A criminal slander action brought by the son of the president of Mozambique against a journalist and the children of an assassinated editor have brought to the surface debates on race, development strategy and the role of the press. These are taking place in the shadow of Zimbabwe and in the context of international donors wanting to give more money to Mozambique because it is seen as a success story of World Bank and IMF policies.
Bank corruption becomes site of struggle in Mozambique
Three people have been murdered for investigating corruption in the Mozambican banking system and the loss of more than $400 million. All countries use banks politically, and in Mozambique, the banks were first used to build socialism, then to keep the country running during the war, and finally in the new capitalist era to promote local entrepreneurs and keep the economy out of foreign hands. But the nature of socialist banking and the process o…
Mozambique and the Great Flood of 2000
Mozambique: The Torturous Road to Democracy
Postconflict Development: Meeting New Challenges
With the proliferation of civil wars since the end of the Cold War, many developing countries now exist in a "postconflict" environment, posing enormous development challenges for the societies affected, as well as for international actors. Postconflict Development addresses these challenges in a range of vital sectors—security, justice, economic policy, education, the media, agriculture, health, and the environment in countries around the globe.…
Do donors promote corruption: The case of Mozambique
Donors inveigh against corruption, yet give more aid to corrupt governments. Debate continues on the causes of developing country corruption, but with little consideration of the possibility that the behaviour of donors may unintentionally promote corruption. This article looks at the example of Mozambique, where corruption grew rapidly in the 1990s. It argues that the donor community is prepared to tolerate quite blatant corruption if the elite …
Renewed land debate and the 'cargo cult' in Mozambique
Land is again the subject of debate in Mozambique. The 1997 land law was passed following widespread consultation in one of the most democratic processes in Mozambique in the 1990s, and the law won praise for protecting peasant rights while creating space for outside investment. This balance is now being questioned. The law gives communities the right to delimit and register their land; once registered, potential investors need to negotiate with …
It is Possible to Just Give Money to the Poor
Meghnad Desai of the London School of Economics recently suggested that, rather than 'giving fifty billion dollars of overseas aid', we should simply 'find the poor and give them one dollar a week ... That would probably do more to relieve poverty than anything else'. Two experiences in Mozambique of simply handing out money show this is possible. Payments to demobilized soldiers over a two year period and single payments to flood victims were of…
Is the international community helping to recreate the preconditions for war in Sierra Leone
“In a very real sense, the conditions that spawned the war and inflicted gruesome casualties on Sierra Leone's citizens have not disappeared”, the International Crisis Group has warned. In this paper we argue that many of those conditions are being recreated. The same old men who were responsible for the war are still in power, both in government and in a reinstated chieftaincy system, and corruption is still endemic, while young people remain jo…
Political science (31 works) · Economics (25 works) · Law (18 works) · Development economics (14 works) · Geography (13 works) · Economic growth (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Political economy (10 works) · International Development and Aid (9 works) · Sociology (9 works)