CMI Brief
| 2016
Urban poverty and inequality in Luanda, Angola
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 17) 4 p.
How to cite this publication:
Inge Tvedten, Gilson Lázaro (2016). Urban poverty and inequality in Luanda, Angola. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief 17)
Portuguese version: Pobreza urbana e desigualdade em Luanda, Angola
This brief shows that the poor in Angola’s capital Luanda are effectively trapped in poverty through material deficiencies, limited income opportunities and with crime and prostitution sometimes being the only way out. At the same time, informal social protection mechanisms based on extended family obligations, community solidarity and reciprocity seem to have eroded. As one interlocutor puts it:
“We don’t have anything. The rich have everything!”
CEIC-CMI Angola Programme
Mar 2015 - Dec 2017
