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• Teaching Note | HBS Case Collection | February 2019

  Angola Starts Now

  Jeremy Friedman and Sophus A. Reinert

  Teaching Note for HBS No. 719-007.

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  Friedman, Jeremy, and Sophus A. Reinert. "Angola Starts Now." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 719-058, February 2019.  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | January 2019

  Angola Starts Now

  Jeremy Friedman and Sophus A. Reinert

  After five centuries of colonialism, four decades of civil war, an extended experiment with Marxism-Leninism, and nearly four decades of rule by a single man, José Eduardo Dos Santos, Angola finally has a chance to realize its enormous economic potential. A country blessed with enormous resources of oil, gold, and diamonds, it also has some of the most fertile remaining untilled land in Africa. However, since the end of fighting in 2002, Angola’s vast wealth has been squandered by a small elite tied to the single party that has ruled the country since independence, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). In a country with a per capita GDP of over $4,000, the vast majority of the population subsists on less than $2 per day, and little investment has been made in infrastructure, education, and healthcare. Can the country’s—and the MPLA’s—new president, João Lourenço, implement the necessary reforms to unlock Angola’s economic potential, or will the existing power structure prevent the sort of change that is required if Angola’s people are to finally see the benefits of independence?

  Keywords: Development Economics; Government and Politics; History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Social Issues; Angola;

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  Friedman, Jeremy, and Sophus A. Reinert. "Angola Starts Now." Harvard Business School Case 719-007, January 2019.  View Details

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• Article | Harvard Business School Working Knowledge | December 11, 2018

  Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

  Sophus A. Reinert and Dante Roscini

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  Reinert, Sophus A., and Dante Roscini. "Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (December 11, 2018).  View Details

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