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Rebecca Engebretsen on Angola's economic peril

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Rebecca Engebretsen, pre-doctoral research fellow at GEG, was featured on National Public Radio 'Morning Edition' on the 17th October 2017. The piece explored the foreign currency crisis and Angola's economic peril. A specialist on the political economy of Angola, Rebecca spoke about the acute lack of foreign exchange in the country after global oil prices started to fall in 2014. Oil currently stands for approximately 98 percent of Angola's exports, raising challenges of devaluing its currency and finding ways to make money outside of oil.

You can listen to the podcast, or read the transcript, here.