Reducing the distance between planners and road users is crucial to the effective delivery of public services in the rural areas of Mozambique, suggests Euclides Gonçalves on the basis of research conducted in Inharrime district, Inhambane. “For Inharrime and other districts of Mozambique, development will require the inclusion of the history and imagination of beneficiary groups in the planning and provision of public services,” writes the anthropologist.
These points are raised by Gonçalves in the chapter “Inharrime by its roads: notes on decentralization and public services in a district of Inhambane province“, that came out in the publication Questions on productive development in Mozambique published a book published by the Institute of Social and Economic Studies (IESE).
