The only raw materials that Africa is not seen as valuable is the man
The only material the first African
which is not considered valuable is the man
FAO's latest report paints a worsening of conditions of life in developing countries and in those with low and very low level of development . One billion people, one sixth of humanity, not eating enough: 100 million more than in 2008.
The most critical situation in absolute terms is that of Asia: about one-sixth of the population is undernourished, 642 million people out of a total of just over four billion. In relative terms, however, the continent remains poor and hungry in Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa where hunger is the daily reality for one third of the population: 265 million people of well 788.
The cause is partly attributed to the global crisis in many states has interrupted a trend of positive economic growth.
As regards Africa, in 2009 the GDP will grow by only 2.8%, for the first time less of the population and that after five years of average growth above 5%, with peaks higher than 10% in Angola and other oil-producing states.
The main negative factors attributable to the international economic crisis is the decline in the price of many commodities in international markets, the loss of revenue resulting from the reduction in remittances and foreign investments despite the greater interest shown by the mainland China, India and other Asian states.
But it was certainly not the international crisis in the starvation of more than one third of the people of Zimbabwe and Somalia in the last year, but a delusional government policy that has literally destroyed the national economy in the first case, and a long war 18 years ago, in the second. To explain what is happening is the internal causes of the weakness of African economies that it should look. The origin of poverty and increased fragility of African economies, we are first of all factors of all time: corruption, mismanagement, conflicts over the state apparatus, armed anti-government movements, all of which prevent even in good years to transform the GDP growth into human development, namely in better general living conditions.
As in Somalia and Zimbabwe, as in Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Equatorial gripping poverty populations that should benefit from the proceeds of valuable raw materials and that of most have an extraordinary human capital given by a percentage of more than 50%.
The important data, in other words, there is an increase of hungry people in Africa in conjunction with a world crisis, but the persistence of hunger, malnutrition, extremely high rates of infant and maternal mortality, constant percentage of sick and dead AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases easily treated elsewhere or disappeared, while at international level occurred between the conditions most favorable to the continent until 2008, more foreign investment, foreign debt relief, international aid astronomical prices on the rise commodities, from oil that reached almost $ 150 a barrel.
FAO's latest report paints a worsening of living conditions in developing countries and in those with low and very low level of development. One billion people, one sixth of humanity, not eating enough: 100 million more than in 2008. The most critical situation in absolute terms is that of Asia: about one-sixth of the population is undernourished, 642 million people out of a total of just over four billion. In relative terms, however, the continent remains poor and hungry in Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa where hunger is the daily reality for one third of the population: 265 million people of well 788.
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