Governance and The Fight Against Corruption in Angola: Quid Vales? Quo Vadis?
Selected Issues Papers, May 13, 2025
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- Authors: Victor Duarte Lledo, Marco Miguel
- Published: May 13, 2025
- Series: Selected Issues Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229010610.018
Summary findings
- The paper reviews Angola’s recent reform efforts to strengthen good governance and fight corruption.
- Angola has achieved some progress on the governance and anti-corruption fronts since 2018, but the strong momentum observed through 2022 has abated.
- Gaps in most governance indicators remain sizeable and have started to widen in some cases.
- Closing these gaps is expected to deliver sizeable economic growth.
- While the legal framework is broadly appropriate, institutional autonomy, independence, and technical capacity to enforce this legal framework have generally lagged.
- Adoption of more transparent, publicly accessible, participatory, and digitally automated procedures has generally lagged.
Governance gaps and reform momentum
- Progress timeline:
- Progress since 2018.
- Strong momentum through 2022, subsequently abated.
- Status of governance indicators:
- Gaps remain sizeable across most governance indicators.
- Some indicators have started to widen after 2022.
- Expected payoff:
- Closing governance gaps is expected to deliver sizeable economic growth.
Legal and institutional assessment
- Legal framework:
- Described as broadly appropriate.
- Institutional weaknesses:
- Institutional autonomy and independence are insufficient.
- Technical capacity to enforce the legal framework is lacking.
- Procedural shortcomings:
- Need for more transparent, publicly accessible, participatory, and digitally automated procedures.
Thematic coverage and policy areas
- Subject tags supplied:
- Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT)
- Budget execution and treasury management
- Budget planning and preparation
- Corruption
- Crime
- Public financial management (PFM)
- Keywords supplied:
- Angola, Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Budget execution and treasury management, Budget planning and preparation, corruption, fight corruption, Global, governance, governance indicator, market regulation, quid vale, Quo vadi, recent reform effort, rule of law, Sub-Saharan Africa
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