unctad.org | Has trade liberalization contributed to improving the situation of women in Angola?
17 noviembre 2013
Trade liberalization has reinforced the extractive character of the Angolan economy, but has not altered the employment profile of female workers. For the time being, women are still largely found in low-productivity and low-income activities, an UNCTAD study has found.

The study, entitled Who is Benefiting from Trade Liberalization in Angola? A Gender Perspective, seeks to explore the impacts of Angola's integration into the world economy mainly as an oil exporter, and in particular, to analyse whether there is a gender bias in the effects of trade.


Angola's natural resource endowments - particularly oil, but also diamonds - have made it one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. And yet, the country's extractive sector has so far only integrated into the domestic economy in a limited way, and its contribution to employment generation has been modest. In addition, Angola is still recovering from the 40-year-long armed struggle that led to drastic declines in agricultural and manufacturing production.







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