The Angolan government’s attempt to use external borrowing to plug the country’s twin fiscal and current account shortfalls opened by low oil prices is, at best, a temporary measure. This will increase foreign debt without reducing the economy’s dependence on the oil sector. Sustaining rapid growth in the face of persistently low oil prices will require radical economic reform.
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