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SUMMARY:Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola Since the Civil War - Ricardo 
 Soares de Oliveira
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DESCRIPTION:Magnificent and Beggar Land is a powerful account of fast-chan
 ging dynamics in Angola\, an important African state that is a key exporte
 r of oil and diamonds and a growing power on the continent. Based on three
  years of research and extensive first-hand knowledge of Angola\, it docum
 ents the rise of a major economy and its insertion in the international sy
 stem since it emerged in 2002 from one of Africa’s longest and deadliest
  civil wars.\n\nThe government\, backed by a strategic alliance with China
  and working hand in glove with hundreds of thousands of expatriates\, man
 y from the former colonial power\, Portugal\, has pursued an ambitious age
 nda of state-led national reconstruction. This has resulted in double-digi
 t growth in Sub-Saharan Africa’s third largest economy and a state budge
 t in excess of total western aid to the entire continent.\n\nScarred by a 
 history of slave trading\, colonial plunder and war\, Angolans now aspire 
 to the building of a decent society. How has the regime\, led by President
  José Eduardo dos Santos since 1979\, dealt with these challenges\, and c
 an it deliver on popular expectations? Soares de Oliveira’s book charts 
 the remarkable course the country has taken in recent years.\n\nRicardo So
 ares de Oliveira is Associate Professor in Comparative Politics\, Universi
 ty of Oxford\, fellow of St Peter´s College\, Oxford\, and fellow of the 
 Global Public Policy Institute\, Berlin. He is the author of Oil and Polit
 ics in the Gulf of Guinea and co-editor of China Returns to Africa
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