What causes poor roads and utilities in Africa?
152009
poor economic and corrupted politcians of course
449732
there are no simple solutions to the problems in africa. some problems with your solution are: how can people transport such large amounts of water? where will it come from? who will pay for it? will the country be expected to pay it back? etc.
200623
maybe this will help you a little bit\nhttp://www.mobileafrica.net/news-africa.php?id=450\nhttp://www.wetrader.com/
305186
More Pollution\nMore Dead birds on the road\nThe darn AC doesn't work\nGas prices.
688502
There are many arguements about this area. It is clear that the biggest disaster in Africa are the governments who are almost all completely corrupt and the widespread wars. \nThe best example of government impoverising a country is Zimbabwe. This country used to be an exporter of food, under the current corrupt regime of Mugabe people are dying of starvation.\nSouth East Asia 30 years ago had a similar poverty situation as countries in Africa, with little foreign aid they now have economies that work and have raised their standards of living for many of their people.\nThe worst case of foreign aid is the Palestinians, they have recieved more aid per head than any country in the world, the money has been taken by Arafat and the police to buy guns and bombs to kill. The people are now much poorer than 20 years ago when they had no foreign aid.
237609
noway.. its poor africa or war torn afghan..
1046662
Biggest challenges are mainly to do with environmental concerns politics and legislation, labour requires more money as people are becoming more and more skilled, large businesses are undercutting smaller ones by outsourcing key business processes to 3rd world countries or countries with cheaper labour costs, (indina china), in Africa its governments that are affect businesses, a change in government in africa does not gurantee current standards will remain the same african governments have been known to bury businesses that have existed for 20+years withing a single day, they create a very much volatile environment to do business in and fail to maintain policy from one government to the next one governement will have completely different ideas as to the other, businesses in africa face skilled labour shortage because of the HIV virus, and brain drain most africans migrating to first world nations. In asia Government policies is major concern , in middle east more or less terrorism creating a volatile environment for business in Europe and USA more to do with legislation volitlity of economy is understandable, a last factor is cost of fuel impacts severly on every resource.
466591
The resources of Africa have historically been exploited by Europeans and Americans, etc. The Africans themselves have been largely cut out of the deal. \n\nA handful of African leaders get rich, the rest of the population dies of malaria and dysentery.
771092
Le meilleur moyen est de développer le football en Afrique. Il faut mettre en place de solides infrastructures et permettre aux jeunes de d'abord jouer dans leur pays un petit moment puis éventuellement de venir tenter l'aventure en Europe. Donc rendre plus compétitifs les équipes nationales africaines et dynamiser leur économie.
509988
Hey good question and i too am curious but i dont think its only African leaders. Most and I repeat most leaders are corrupt.
1007516
The problem is that many African countries don't have functioning governmental institutions.  Sending money might help alleviate problems temporarily, but until they have more stable institutions and social welfare programs, governments can't be effective in helping their people.  Another problem is that many African countries have outrageous amounts of debt, so this plus unstable economies (that part is sort of a chicken and egg kind of thing) make it really difficult for these governments to become more stable and to provide and maintain public goods.
645846
Disadvantages: Destruction of indigenous religious/ social/political/economic organizations and practices, widespread robbery of African land and resources, exploitation, oppression, rape, murder of millions of Africans.  The authoritarian government style used by the Brits have been inherited by post-independence African governments, which has supported the rise of dictators all over Africa.  African domestic agriculture and industry sectors were (and are) depressed by the export-oriented economic strategies of the colonial governments.  And so much more!\n\nAdvantages:  It has been argued that Western medicine and education has benefited Africans.  Also, Christianity imposed by the missionaries supposedly became a "unifier" of the many different tribes, ethnicities, and religions of indigenous Africans.  That's really crap however, because Christianity ripped apart families, kinship groups, etc.
47497
I have some info. There's alot of hungry people in africa. And perhaps if they did some work to stir up some money, then they could buy some food. They should stop bumming food off of countries that feel bad for them. either die or work. It's that easy.
600182
thats because slavery has never ended, the mental drain of africa is an ongoing thing, europe and americas where all built by africans.\nand to be quite honest africa has its own problems to be worried about what happened in the past especially when there is so much shit going down in this continent
453568
There are many issues causing poverty - there is inequality, human rights issues, lack of education, lack of access to information, unfair trade practices ... so reducing poverty in this millenium is a difficult although attainable goal.  There's also talk of the Milllenium Development Goals which multialteral development insitutions are inviting all governments and NGOs to help in achieving. I hope this will help you attend that lecture better.
537879
Drought and poor water quality are the causes of poverty in the World. Diseases set in with the deaths of populations which just makes things worse. Global Warming has off set the water tables and the rains that provide water to Africa, India, and South East Asia. The Epidemic was started 30 years ago and has ended up in Civil War in Africa.
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1. EAst Timor is the poorest\n2.Somalia\n3. Sierra  Leone\n4. Malawi\n5.Tanzania\n6.Burundi\n7.The republic of Congo\n8.Democratic republic of Congo\n9.Comoros\n10.Eritrea\nTheir governments should figure a way to make money.  I don't see why poor people should have to die that's crazy.