Carlos Rosado de Carvalho, an economist, has observed that Angola’s Privatization Program (ProPriv) is not hitting its targets. He notes to the LUSA agency the public sector is now even bigger than when privatization started. Despite efforts, only a few entities, like the BCI bank in 2021 and a portion of Caixa Angola, have been […]
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