Angola from Afro-Stalinism to Petro-Diamond Capitalism

By Dávid Simon, T. Hodges. 2001

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DOES INEQUALITY CAUSE CONFLICT (2003, background): “During this period, increasing oil and diamond production has raised the stakes of conflict and together with war itself has fuelled rising inequality (Hodges, 2001).”
Chinese construction companies in Angola : a local linkages perspective (2012, background): “It is alleged that most budget in this regard has gone towards given the children of the political elite bursaries to study overseas (Hodges, 2001).”
Ideology and Violence in Civil Wars: Theory and Evidence from Mozambique and Angola (2012, background): “As Ziemke writes, ‘Over time, the ideals of Marxism, nationalization, and socialism by MPLA elites receded and the rawest form of capitalism [was] embraced for the way in which it could line their pockets’.116 Hodges likewise saw corruption and cronyism developing in the late 1980s and early 1990s ‘”
Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse (2011, unknown): “doi:10.1017/S0003055410000584”
The Resource Curse and Oil Revenues in Angola and Venezuela (2011, unknown): “After a rapprochement between the governments of Angola and Zaire in 1978 and 1979, however, the FNLA lost its sanctuaries and rapidly crumbled (Hodges, 2001, 39).”