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Angola Country Report
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- Vol 45 No 25
- 17/12/2004
Boom boom, China's coming
Production is soaring, prices are up and Luanda is finding new friends
- Vol 45 No 24
- 03/12/2004
Election, what election?
With money and political dominance, the MPLA isn't rushing to the polls
- Vol 45 No 24
- 03/12/2004
There's money in reconstruction, if you have friends
In the multi-million dollar post-war reconstruction business, the competition - political as well as commercial - is stiff. Job Capapinha has been brought in to replace Higino Carneiro as head of the Luanda Management Commission. Carneiro, who keeps h...
- Vol 45 No 22
- 05/11/2004
Green light
Donors will give Angola the benefit of the doubt and hold a pledging conference next year. On 15 October in Luanda, Karel de Gucht, Belgian Foreign Minister, said Belgium was prepared to organise the long-awaited meeting.
- Vol 45 No 2
- 23/01/2004
Black gold flows
If the powerful can get their hands on oil money, why bother about reform?
- Vol 45 No 2
- 23/01/2004
From Russia with debt
One of Angola's murkier debt deals was an intricate agreement for rescheduling US$5 billion owed, mostly since the Cold War, to Russia. After hefty repayments, the then Finance Minister, Júlio Bessa (since replaced by José Pedro de Morais) t...
- Vol 44 No 23
- 21/11/2003
Holding the cash
The President has promised not to stand for re-election: don't hold your breath
- Vol 44 No 23
- 21/11/2003
Luanda's money-go-round
Mystery surrounds the 'social bonus fund' set up from proceeds of the oil licence payments from blocks 31-34. Touted as proof that big oil investors could nudge Angola's government towards responsible development spending, the fund should now contain over...
- Vol 44 No 8
- 18/04/2003
Win the war, lose the peace
The civil war has ended but economic and political renewal have barely begun
- Vol 44 No 4
- 21/02/2003
Beg, borrow and steal
At this critical time for peace, nearly a billion dollars is missing from the foreign reserves
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