Angola - an Oil Dependant Country in Sub-Saharan Africa

Baumgartner Boris ()
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Baumgartner Boris: Ing. Boris Baumgartner, PhD; University of Economics in Bratislava, Faculty of Commerce, Department of International Trade, Dolnozemská cesta 1, 852 35 Bratislava

Studia Commercialia Bratislavensia, 2016, vol. 9, issue 35, 233-242

Abstract: The Sub-Saharan Africa belongs to the most underdeveloped regions in the world economy. This region consists of forty nine countries but it’s world GDP share is only a small percentage. There are some very resource rich countries in this region. One of them is Angola. This former Portuguese colony has one of the largest inventories of oil among all African countries. Angola recorded one of the highest growth of GDP between 2004-2008 from all countries in the world economy and nowadays is the third biggest economy in Sub-Saharan Africa after Nigeria and South Africa. The essential problem of Angola is the one-way oriented economy on oil and general on natural resources. Angola will be forced to change their one-way oriented economy to be more diversified and competitive in the future.

Keywords: Sub-Saharan Africa; oil; resource curse; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/stcb-2016-0023

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