Evaluation of rural development experiences in Africa: the case of Mozambique

Abstract

Despite a well-endowed and diversified resource base, Mozambique received very little investment in infrastructure, productive capacity and education, during the colonial period. The result was an almost total lack of physical, economic and social infrastructure, one of the lowest literacy rates in the world, and an acute shortage of skilled managerial and technical staff. The latter problem now severely constrains the government's ability to undertake even the most basic policy analyses or planning activities.