Why does Angola have such a low Gini coefficient?

Without knowing all that much about Angola, I can offer you a pretty good guess about why measured inequality seems to be suspiciously low: because the richest people refuse to participate in the household surveys that provide the data used to calculate inequality statistics. read more

Few countries have endured as much as Angola. Forty years of almost continuous war had left the nation in disarray when peace accords were finally signed in 2002. Today, inequities characterize Angolan society; while the economy has been growing by more than 7 per cent annually, 38 per cent of Angolans live in poverty. read more