Though rural Angola has higher rates of poverty, a third of Angolans living in poverty and 40 percent of those vulnerable to falling into poverty are in urban areas. Yet, Angola’s poverty alleviation strategy – particularly its Kwenda cash transfer program introduced in 2020 –targets only rural areas. High urbanization rates and recent shocks that disproportionately affect urban dwellers, such as food price hikes and fuel subsidy reform, mean that...
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2024/05/01
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Poverty and Vulnerability in Urban Angola
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Sousa, Liliana; Zane, Giulia.
Poverty and Vulnerability in Urban Angola (English). Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions Notes Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099060724053017596