Informal economy and unemployment in Angola – the trajectory of its agents
Keywords:
Informalidade económica; saneamento básico; universitária; vulnerabilidade sócio-económica.Abstract
It is impossible to talk about economic informality in Angola without taking a historical look at all the various social aspects of this immense country. Throughout the intense 27 years of civil war, informality in Angola was a way of subsistence for most families, and even a strategy to generate employment and income and escape the socio-economic vulnerability to which they were condemned. This socio-economic vulnerability is the visual function of the degradation of well-faire state to which societies are subject, resulting from the combination of negative and impeding factors such as lack of housing; precarious and, for the most part, non-existent basic sanitation; inadequate basic education incapable of meeting the demands of the populations of this vast territory; precarious health system, incapable of meeting the needs of families. From 2002 to 2024, a period of definitive peace, this scenario has required local governments to identify and understand the current socio-economic status of families throughout the country, in order to better distribute national wealth. The difficulty of government institutions in providing immediate responses to families' needs leads these families to seek ways to survive the well-known endogenous and exogenous economic fluctuations. Using secondary data sources, this work identified the most vulnerable segments of one of the regions of the province of Icolo and Bengo, with interviews in the markets of Zango 1 and Mercado do 30, municipality of Calumbo and focused on verifying the representativeness of their demands in three axes: Formal business; Unemployment and informal job.
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