Journal of Global Economics

Mozambique, like any other country in the world that imports fuel, spends a lot of money, both from the state as well as from companies and families. Nevertheless, being subject to the vulnerabilities of the price fluctuations of this precious energy liquid in the international market, there is a whole need to guarantee stable prices in the domestic market.

This article attempts to critically examine the concept of 'Normative Power Europe' and its role in (re)producing the dominant power relation between the EU and the African nations. In order to analyze the normative power thesis and its postcolonial implication to Africa this article introduces the Cotonou Partnership Agreement- the EU cooperation agreement with African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries-which included tight normative clauses and conditionality’s. The article argues that the meta-narrative of NPE and the normative clauses and conditionality’s in the Cotonou Partnership Agreement are reinforcing the unequal power relations that are resulted from the colonial rule in the African- EU relations through the practice of Orientalism. It farther reveals this meta-narrative produces and reproduces the representation of Africans as 'inferior' and 'deficient' which needs to be redeemed by the help of the 'superior' and 'capable' Europeans.

This Research was conducted to examine the determinant of agricultural output in Doba woreda. The objective of the study was to identify the major determinants of agricultural output in the study area. In order to achieve this objective, the study used both primary and secondary source of data. The primary data was collected through questionnaires and interviews. The secondary data was collected from agricultural office of the woreda and from other documents. The sampling technique was random sampling method with sample size of 100 respondents. The collected data was analyzed and interpreted using descriptive statistics. The majority farmers of the woreda live with large family size, small and fragmented land, large number of illiteracies, use traditional method of farming, and low female participation in the agricultural activities which lead agricultural productivity low. To avoid such problems, the woreda administration should be provide subsidy, credit with low interest rate, give training to illiterate to the farmers and also appreciate to use irrigation to avoid rainfall uncertainty.