Angola: Global "Good Governance" Also Needed

June 2006
Although Angola has emerged from war, a hoped-for “peace dividend” has yet to be paid to most of its citizens. The country’s political and business elites enjoy the fruits of the country’s petrodollars, but ordinary citizens face collosal deficits in public services, livelihoods and legitimate governmance. Sogge charts Angola’s tragedy and what role international corporations and Western powers play in it.

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Transnational Institute Board member, David works as an independent advisor for grant-making agencies, specialising in civil society. Research and other professional activities in Africa provided a basis for books and articles on Angola and Mozambique and many unpublished reports on South Africa. More recently, evaluative research assignments have taken him to Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union. Trained at Harvard, David earned his graduate degrees from Princeton and the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague.