These include a broad program of economic diversification and massive improvements in infrastructure, education, healthcare, agriculture, and transportation – not just in major cities but in rural areas, too – as well as a greater focus on green energy.
“I think the crisis that the oil sector faced with the reduction of its prices in the international arena, and the global economic crisis, in a way helped the Angolan government in terms of thinking to engage in the diversification of its economy as well as recovery modernization of infrastructure,” comments Ambassador of Angola to the U.S. Josefina Pitra Diakite.
Angola has made great strides in achieving national food security. “We are very pleased because Angola used to rely on external support for food but we are no longer receiving food from abroad. We are still working with international institutions to help us improve the quality of our agricultural services and programs,” says the ambassador.
Ms. Pitra also applauds her country’s constitution. “We succeeded in adopting a constitution that really institutes and restores the state of governance and rights,” she says. Public expenditure has been reduced through a restructuring of the government, says Ambassador Pitra. “The previous government was quite heavy in that sense, but that is one of the bills that the country had to pay to achieve peace and reconciliation.”
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