A Administração Pública e a eficiência alocativa da terra: o caso de Magude 1998-2004

Abstract

The present work had as its main reason to analyze the extent to which Public Administration is efficient in allocating land in the district of Magude. The study concluded that A.P was inefficient in allocating land in the district due to the fact that it did not contain the technological and human requirements for achieving the objectives defined by it. On the other hand, the form of action adopted is that of an administrative model of passive survival and not that of interactive efficiency as the discourse and official documents (PROAGRI) seek to show. From the sample set up in the locality of Mulelemane, it was possible to identify five actors involved in the allocation of land, namely the SDGC, the TA's, the private ones divided between the investors and the absent owners, the households of the community and the national NGOs. It was also possible to identify the sporadic land registration system, the system of consigned territories as well as the informal land market system. In the dissertation, the theoretical debate is based on the African Socialist Theory, embodied in the Marxist school, defenders of this perspective defend the ownership and control of the means of production collectively, and it is therefore up to the State to determine the conditions of its use, which is why planning centralized an instrument of efficiency in the allocation of resources. The second theoretical sphere defended by the Evolutionary Theory of Land Property Rights, which is based on neo-classical assumptions, for them the allocative efficiency of a productive factor is achieved through the adoption of market mechanisms (supply and demand) that must be properly regulated. . Finally, the theory of the dynamism of customary rights of the land consolidates its analysis in the neo-institutionalist postulates that advocate the interventionist need of social institutions and not only of the State in order to guarantee greater coverage of extremities resulting from market practices and insufficiencies of the State for example, information asymmetries are recorded as well as high transaction costs for the land factor. Subsequently, three analytical hypotheses were raised and operational concepts of the variables distributive equity and social returns of the concept of allocative efficiency underlying the aforementioned theories were developed. The methodological strategy was based on the identification and criticism of the sources, the selection of methods and techniques and the applied research process.