Verdict: carrot
Angola has the same Gini coefficient for inequality as apartheid SA (though a touch better than today’s Manhattan). Yet this little-studied kleptocracy is an accepted part of the western system.
Expat western workers keep Angola ticking. Angolan oligarchs inhabit the global luxury economy of British public schools, Swiss asset managers, Hermes stores …
In fact, argues the Oxford political scientist Ricardo Soares de Oliveira in his marvellous new book, Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola Since the Civil War, we live in “an oligarch’s ideal world”.
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- Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
EAN: 9781849042840
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