After several years of centralized State, Mozambique has from the late 1980s initiated profound reforms that led to the democratization of the State and the decentralization of government and markets. The decentralization process thus initiated aimed primarily at boosting the economy and promoting public sector efficiency and effectiveness.
The process has strategically been designed for two purposes: firstly maintaining the central government’s control over local authorities through deconcentration; and secondly, through devolution, some regions and the urban areas have been granted political, administrative and financial autonomy. The fiscal/financial decentralization in Mozambique has to be understood and analyzed in light of these two parallel decentralization processes (devolution on the one side and deconcentration on the other).
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Another interesting article published on LEDNA about decentralisation in Mozambique: Implementing decentralisation: Mozambique scores good marks