Investimentos e cooperação do Brasil e o padrão de acumulação em Moçambique: reforçando dependência e porosidade?

Abstract

After two decades of high economic growth, Mozambique has recently experienced increased levels of foreign direct investment. Yet, Mozambique, which is yet one of the poorest countries in the world, continues to have serious problems in reducing poverty and promoting structural changes in its economy. This article analyses the characteristics of the recent boom of Brazilian investment and aid to Mozambique and scrutinizes how these two relate with the Mozambican accumulation pattern. Building on the Marxist Dependence Theory and on the recent literature focusing on the porosity of Mozambican economic growth, the article argues that the recent surge of Brazilian investments and the unequal duality inherent in Brazilian cooperation reinforce the current pattern of porous and dependent economic growth, which is marked by hurried expansion of GDP and FDI combined with stagnation in poverty and in the living conditions of the masses.