Some of the world’s poorest countries, with some of the highest child labor and illiteracy rates lie in Sub Saharan Africa. People generally associate the region only with poor economic conditions and all of the social disorder that goes along with 3rd World Status. While some of this reputation is deserved, many people are also failing to see the vast potential for this part of the world. There are several factors that African governments should look into if they want to effectively and efficiently revamp this areas quality of life. One way to do so is by improving the more crucial aspects to healthy functioning region, for example, allowing children to possess their natural rights to a decent education. This could influence an increase …show more content…
Not only do the citizens have to be proactive on solving this situation, but so do the African governments. The reason why Sub Saharan Africa is undergoing such a rapid growth of population is because of the desire to have more male children. It is almost cultural that a family in this region is to have at least two male offspring (UNICEF). They believe men can help more with the family’s crops and laborious work than the females. Therefore, if a woman only bares female children, she will continually make every effort until she births a male, leaving the growing family with one jam-packed house. Men also have more of an economic opportunity in this region due to the fact that they are taken more seriously. If gender biased laws were put into place and were rigorously enforced, it will most certainly have a lasting impact for the better of Sub Saharan.
Family size is also a huge contributor to the population catastrophe. Generally, a family in this region is consisted of around five to six children (Bridge). The reason for women to bare so many children is because of the high risk of infant mortality. Since children’s health has improved in the 1980’s, women continued to have the same number of kids. However, more lived, which then pushed fertility rates even higher (World Religions, Environment, Development 233). In order for Sub Saharan to stabilize their flourishing
During the age of cross-cultural interactions, regions went through similar changes and continuities. These regions allowed consistent causes and effects to emerge and change their societies. These changes and continuities are evident in the regional societies located within Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. In Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas from 600 to 1450 CE, opportunities for women changed, however religion and labor continued to influence society.
Generally speaking, overpopulation in developing countries causes multiple issues in maintaining a good quality of life in society. The largest problem with overpopulation in developing countries is that people have to do things that they normally would not do in order to make a living. For example, in Sold, Mumtaz forces Lakshmi into prostitution. Mumtaz tells Lakshmi of her new life when she says, “You will take men to your room and do whatever they ask of you. You will work here like the other girls, until your debt is paid off.” (70). Mumtaz forcing Lakshmi against her will displays the lengths
In this essay, we are also discussed about classical theory in which we look forward to economy perspective by Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Keynes ideas regarding the consequences of poverty that bring to underdevelopment in Africa. The issues of poverty in Sub-Saharan African always become debate in the world because Africa always exploited by rich country likes European countries. The people in South Africa living under poverty if we look based on the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation stated there 239 million of people in Sub-Saharan Africa were lack of food to eat and malnutrition in 2010 approximately .The numbers of hungry Africans are living under poverty are larger than the population in Asia. The malnourished people in Sub-Saharan
Take a look at the past, our history; although there is only one factual outcome, there are an infinite number of opinions, perspectives and almost always more than one side to a story. I will be taking a look in to the novel, Colonial Africa, written by Dennis Laumann, as well as, African Perspectives on Colonialism, by A. Adu Boahen, and hopefully through this, we can gain a stronger understanding of Colonialism in Africa and how Boahen and Laumann compare and differ.
Imagine you, having to wake up as early as 5 in the morning (maybe a little earlier!), your mouth as dry as the Saharan desert. You have strep, and you wake up with a quenched thirst and sore throat. You then get on your lightest clothes if you have any, and you head out to the nearest river/lake/tap/stream which would be at least 7 miles away. That is like from Collingswood to Mount Laurel! You then fill up your water basket which could weigh up to 70 pounds and the water could be contaminated. BUt anyway, you do it to live and for your family to live even though it may be unhealthy. Also, imagine that you have a dream to become a Doctor but you can’t because your family can’t afford to keep you in school. You can only eat the same food over
giant of a country?s population. Should Africa do the same thing for the good of its
Every year, thousands of Sub Saharan Africans trek through the dangerous journey north to attempt to get into Europe. These people emigrate from some of the poorest nations in the entire world seeking a longer, higher quality life. These migrants are escaping a life expectancy of only 47 years and a population growth almost four times that of Europe and HIV rates almost nineteen times that of Europe. They seek a better life not only them, but their families as well, looking for higher education rates like Europe 's 99% versus their 66% education rate. Overall the living conditions of sub-saharan africa are extremely poor along with a GDP almost six and a half times lower than Europe’s. These migrants pay what they have saved for years just to buy their way to Europe, costs ranging from approximately one to three thousand Euros. All these problems are the origins of sub-saharan migration to europe, where thousands are losing their lives every year, but what should Europe do about it? Although there are EU policies to help migrants who get into EU soil, these policies are only of good use when they are used correctly by uncorrupted systems. This makes it hard for migrants to try to get residence in the EU, on top of the fact that these policies do not apply to the bordering nations. These problems along with discrimination and the fact that the journey to get there in the first place is extremely dangerous, all of these problems should be addressed by the EU and
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Overpopulation, this is so with any society that largely depends on agriculture, African families are often very large. Most of the elderly rely on their children for support, and as much agriculture in Africa is labor-intensive, large numbers of children provide much needed labor for plowing, planting and harvesting. However, overpopulation is a serious problem in urban areas, which have grown enormously since the beginnings of African independence in the in the late 1950s and later. For example, in 1960, 14.5% of Nigeria's population lived in urban areas, that number had grown to 43% by 2000, and is growing at an estimated 5.5% per year, compared to a 2.9% national population growth rate. This is a trend that can be seen throughout the continent.
The issue at stake is not population numbers depiction, but concerns for the quality of education for Tanzanians children. Honestly, the growing number of children in Tanzania as (Woods, 2009) alerts, is a clarion call for excessive investment in education, and in other public services. Comparable to other poor countries as Jeffrey Sachs and Easterly (2006) argued, the poor people live entwined in inadequacy, “in which taking to account the global abuse of children, poor wellbeing, learning, and poor arrangement reinforces “one another” (p. 10 ). It is incontestable that children are the treasured resources of any future nation, and therefore, financing beyond their education quality would be the ultimate investment for their development. This is to say, parents, teachers, and communities need to ensure the safety of children and monitor what they learn in classrooms, while paying a distinctive attention to the marginalized children the most likely to be victims of quality education access limitation.
Within the last 60 years, Third World development has been a global priority, at the top of virtually every Western agenda. And with the rise of the global population and poverty levels continuing to rise along with it, it is very easy to see why human development is becoming such a topic of focus and discussion among members of the academia. But one question that everyone wants the answer too is, how does Third World development fit into Globalization? Despite apparent compatibility, when closely examined it is clear to see that Globalization actually contradicts Third World development due to the conflict of agendas. Both Globalization and Development hold views concerning market reform, social structure and regulation, which are
The aim of this report is to discover the inequalities in Africa. This will be done by analysing the 3 main topics economic, environmental and social aspects of wellbeing in Africa. Located on the southern end of the African continent, north of Zimbabwe and Mozambique and surrounded by Atlantic ocean and Indian ocean is a continent that Covers 1 221 040 square kilometres. South Africa only takes over 4%of the lands area but is 3 times the size of Texas and 5 times bigger than Great Britain. The estimated population of South Africa in 2013 was 52.982 it shows a big growing raise throughout each year. This country holds a variety of different races and religions like white, dark, Christian and some other major religions.
In 2000, the United Nations introduced the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as part of the United Nations Millennium Declaration. The MDGs were established to attempt to improve overall well-being for as many people as possible, and targets issues such as poverty, starvation, and disease. This paper will focus on the development goal of achieving universal primary education, specifically focusing on the country of Ethiopia. Achieving universal primary education is important because it acts as a building block towards the development of counties as a whole. Primary education is not only a necessity, but a right to all individuals regardless of gender or class. Over the course of the last decade, Ethiopia has experienced vast improvements
West Africa has the highest infant mortality rate in the world - for every 1000 live births, 70 children die before their first birthday (Wang, 2014). National infant mortality rates vary from 18.8 deaths per 1000 live births in Cape Verde to 89.9 deaths per 1000 live births in Guinea-Bissau. Nonetheless, the leading causes of infant mortality are largely the same across the region: neonatal conditions (26 percent), malaria (21 percent), pneumonia (21 percent), diarrhea (17 percent), measles (6 percent) and HIV/AIDS (4 percent). The “desired children” hypothesis of fertility asserts that high fertility primarily reflects desired number of children (Pritchett, 1994). In this regard, high infant mortality may motivate women to have more children to attain their preferred family size. Thus aside the important population health implications of reducing high infant mortality rates, demographic theory predicts that improved child survival is accompanied by declines in fertility reflecting reduced demand for replacement births to achieve a given target family size. The influence of reduced infant mortality on fertility decline has also been established empirically in a wide range of settings (Barnum, 1988). Declines in infant mortality, falls in fertility rates, and lower average family sizes lead to changes in population age structure and stimulate increased female labor
“As of January 2016, the population of Niger was estimated to be 19.8 million and a population growth rate of 3.9%, one of the fastest population growth rates in the world”, (World Bank para 1) according to the article “The World Bank in Niger.” Niger is a politically unstable country with no food security, and many natural disasters. Niger having one of the fastest growing population rates in the world is not a beneficial factor for a developing country to have. The children of Niger are being born quickly, and then are forced to live in poverty. These children are illiterate and forced to start the labor force at an early age. Niger is not economically strong enough to be producing children at such an increasing rate; therefore, Niger must enforce a one or two child policy in order to address their economic troubles.