“If Samora were alive, he would have adopted an inclusive growth model,” – Luisa Diogo

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“If Samora were alive, he would have adopted an inclusive growth model,” – Luisa Diogo

1:47 CAT | 23 Aug 2016

O País / Luísa Diogo

Delivering a lecture entitled “Samora Machel’s Thought on Economic Development in Mozambique”, former Mozambican prime minister Luisa Diogo noted that, according to the United Nations Human Development Index, Mozambique is among the poorest countries in the world, and one marked by great social inequalities, and said that if the country’s first president were alive, Mozambique would have adopted a market economy with a strong emphasis on improving citizens’ quality of life and human development.

Elaborating her position, the former prime minister mentioned the investment done on associations and cooperativism, a method advocated by Samora Machel as vital in making social projects accessible to the population.

Another element of Machel’s thoughts on the country’s economic development is the Prospective Indicative Plan adopted by his government between 1980 and 1990, whose outlines still make some of today’s development projects viable.

In the lecture, Diogo called on young people, through their studies and engagement in production, to take a leading role in finding development solutions.

The former prime minister was speaking to students of the Pedagogic University’s Higher School of Accounting and Management.

Source: O País