Since the beginning of the 2000s, a literature suggesting that development is an achievable goal for African states has emerged. Arguments like those that consider ‘neo-patrimonialism’ as an insurmountable obstacle to development have been cast-off in case states embark to re-invest rents in a long-term strategy (Khan and Sundaram 2000; Mkandawire 2001). This paper focuses on Angola, and it tries to determine whether oil rents have been so far employed according to a developmental strategy or for short-term consumption. It further argues that short-term consumption was initially encouraged and tolerated as part of an effort after the end of the civil war (2002) to foster elite cohesion, and it was later on demoted when the government ...
This master thesis assesses the impact of Neo-Liberal policymaking on China’s influence in the Angol...
It is now thirty years since the liberation of Angola from colonialism. For nearly all of that time ...
This article intends an approach to the formation of extractive enclaves in the Democratic Republic ...
Since the beginning of the 2000s, a literature suggesting that development is an achievable goal for...
Development thinking has been progressively dominated by neo-institutionalism, influencing major don...
The post-war transition in Angola has involved small shifts in strategies of elite accumulation to m...
Thanks to oil revenues, since the end of the war in 2002, Angola has largely eschewed the usual dono...
Sharing similar colonial and post-independence civil war experiences, Mozambique and Angola’s develo...
Is it possible to work with the grain of neo?patrimonial politics to boost investment and growth in ...
This paper presents an analysis of the Angolan agricultural sector together with a review of the pri...
Oil and diamond money are at the same time the biggest economic opportunity for Angola as well as be...
WP 2007-05 March 2007Angola is more dependent on oil than any other country in Sub Saharan Africa an...
WP 2010-04 January 2010This paper discusses the effects of Angola’s mineral wealth on the process of...
The aim of my bachelor thesis is to determine what factors contributed to the relative decline of An...
Angola is experiencing an existential transition that will change the way power in the country is re...
This master thesis assesses the impact of Neo-Liberal policymaking on China’s influence in the Angol...
It is now thirty years since the liberation of Angola from colonialism. For nearly all of that time ...
This article intends an approach to the formation of extractive enclaves in the Democratic Republic ...
Since the beginning of the 2000s, a literature suggesting that development is an achievable goal for...
Development thinking has been progressively dominated by neo-institutionalism, influencing major don...
The post-war transition in Angola has involved small shifts in strategies of elite accumulation to m...
Thanks to oil revenues, since the end of the war in 2002, Angola has largely eschewed the usual dono...
Sharing similar colonial and post-independence civil war experiences, Mozambique and Angola’s develo...
Is it possible to work with the grain of neo?patrimonial politics to boost investment and growth in ...
This paper presents an analysis of the Angolan agricultural sector together with a review of the pri...
Oil and diamond money are at the same time the biggest economic opportunity for Angola as well as be...
WP 2007-05 March 2007Angola is more dependent on oil than any other country in Sub Saharan Africa an...
WP 2010-04 January 2010This paper discusses the effects of Angola’s mineral wealth on the process of...
The aim of my bachelor thesis is to determine what factors contributed to the relative decline of An...
Angola is experiencing an existential transition that will change the way power in the country is re...
This master thesis assesses the impact of Neo-Liberal policymaking on China’s influence in the Angol...
It is now thirty years since the liberation of Angola from colonialism. For nearly all of that time ...
This article intends an approach to the formation of extractive enclaves in the Democratic Republic ...