Angola
In Angola, the rents from natural resources are in the hands of a political and economic elite. We research how the country's wealth can be distributed to the benefit of all its citizens.
Current projects
Completed projects
Urban and Rural Poverty Dynamics in Angola
CEIC-CMI Angola Programme
Gender Relations and Human Rights in Angola
Extending the CEIC-CMI Macro model for Angola
Diversification of the Angolan Economy
Inequality in Angola
The Voice of China in Africa - Media and soft power
Risikoanalyse: Olje for Utvikling-programmet i Angola
After Violence: Transitional Justice, Peace, and Democracy
Taxation and local democracy under the oil state
Poverty and entrepreneurship
Diversification of the Angolan economy
Angola: Political institutions and elections
CEIC-CMI Angola Programme (phase 2)
Angolan infrastructure in a regional perspective
Health, Poverty and Public Expenditure
Participation, representation and taxation in local governance in Angola
Budget system and Public expenditure
Annual CEIC/CMI seminar
Acquisition, Project Control and Financial Management
Short courses: Social Science Methodology
Micro credit for Sustainable Development in Angola
Comparative Corporate Strategies
Macro Model for Angola
Angola: Effects of 1992 elections
Political Parties in Angola
ICT capacity
Augmenting teaching resources at UCAN
Appraisal of NPA Mine Action Programme proposal in Angola
Angola: Social Funds
Violence in the post-conflict state
Norske bedrifters CSR-relaterte utfordringer
The Political Economy of the Angolan Budget Process
Cooperation on improvement of IT system at CEIC
Poverty Monitoring and Evaluation in Angola
Budget Process and Transparency in Angola
Angola: Civil Society as Promoters of Governance and Accountability
Mid-term review of the programme of Norwegian People's Aid in Angola
Business ethics for multinational corporations in developing countries
Social responsibility of oil companies: Angola
Good Governance in Angola: Parliamentary Accountability and Control
Review of UNDP in Angola
Good governance in Angola: The role of the courts
Social responsibility and strategies for internationalisation: The Angolan Case
Angola. Key Development Issues and Political Decentalisation
Corruption and public procurement
Country specific aid reviews
Review of UNDP in Angola
Monitoring Political and Economic Developments in Angola
Angola: struggle for peace and reconstruction
Economic growth and gross inequality
Angola is a country of great natural and cultural diversity. The country’s natural resource endowment is outstanding in Africa, and economic growth has accelerated since 2002 – yet most Angolans have never been able to reap its benefits. The fall in global oil prices since 2014 has aggravated the situation even further.
Angola’s human development indicators are persistently low more than a decade after the end of the civil war. Available information indicates that the maternity-related death rate and mother-child health statistics remain among the worst in the world. Poverty and its related complex of problems are widespread, and gross inequality is a chronic feature of the country’s social characteristics and visual appearance. Images of the “resource curse” or “the paradox of plenty” are often invoked when describing Angola.
Although Unita dominated and controlled large tracts of the land during much of the civil war, it was always the MPLA party, which kept power in Luanda since independence. President José Eduardo dos Santos has been in power since 1979. He has therefore overseen the transformation of Angola, from the early post-colonial days into a Cuban and Soviet-inspired one-party state and command economy, then into a multi-party system under a nominally liberal constitution with a free market capitalist ethos. Despite these dramatic changes, the power of the ruling party and the state-sector elites has been a constant.
CMI’s major involvement in Angola is a research collaboration programme between Centro de Estudos e Investigacao Cientifica (CEIC) at the Universidade Católica de Angola and CMI. It is funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Other CMI research in Angola includes:
Both projects are funded by the Research Council of Norway.
The main current activity is a recent started up project funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
Enhancing the research environment in Angola through capacity development 2019-2024.