"In a global industry, it is hard to work with companies tied just to one particular area. We need companies that are either global, or savvy enough to form global partnerships."
Bill Arnold
Bill Arnold
What are Global Partnerships?
The Secretary's Office of Global Partnerships builds and promotes public-private partnerships that aim to strengthen foreign policy, maximize foreign aid impact, and enhance collaboration to solve problems. This collective action has inspired innovative new approaches to diplomacy and development.
This program should foster continued growth with stability and provide new opportunities for financing the economy as well as strengthening the capacity to manage and pay internal and external debt
ANGOLAS' SITUATION
.In the past 5 years, the combination of proper regulation and institutions along with macroeconomic policies and development, has enabled the country to increase by 13.4% of GDP a year despite the sharp fall of the pace of growth seen in 2009, due to the international crisis.
This growth occurred with a gradual improvement of living conditions for the population, which was reflected in a significant reduction in the country's poverty rate from 68% in 2001 to 36.6% in 2009.
Further proof of the distribution of progress seen 2002 is the gradual increase in GDP per capita, which rose from U.S. $ 643.1 in 2001 to U.S. $ 3,900 in 2009, a six-fold increase over the period; despite the fall in 2009 (GDP per capita was USD 4,667 in 2008, WB).
The funding to develop the economy was hard to find, more due to the circumstances the country experienced every year after its Independence rather than due to governance. Most of these conditions were caused by the international oil market and the global economic crisis and then, more recently, by the international financial crisis.
Access to new technologies......
In Angola, the war had a disastrous effect on communication infrastructures. Landlines in particular were virtually destroyed, and even today are difficult to reconstruct, given the amount of investment required for a modern telephone service.
According to IBEP 2008-2009, 1.5% of households had landlines. In urban areas, this proportion reached 2.4%, while in rural areas it was only 0.6%, i.e. one landline for 167 households. In Angola, only 0.7% of people in households had landlines. 79.4% of existing telephone lines were in urban areas and only 18.1% in rural areas. The higher the education level of the head of the household, the greater the likelihood of them having a landline.
Furthermore, 32.6% of people throughout the country had mobile phones, 52.8% in urban areas and 6.3% in rural areas. In both cases, mobile phones per household or per user, there were marked differences between urban and rural areas.