Globalization And Sub-Saharan Africa

Despite the march towards globalization, many people in South America and Sub-Saharan Africa are still mired in poverty. According to Thomas L. Friedman, author of The World is Flat, suggests that the world went into a period of globalization in the 1970’s. In this era of globalization, countries such as China, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, and India initiated what Friedman calls “reform wholesale.” This reform wholesale refers to the focus of the emerging countries on “adopting more market-friendly macroeconomic

The situation of education for young girls in Sub-Saharan Africa is very complex, difficult and troublesome. A vast majority of girls don’t get the chance to enroll in primary education, leaving secondary education out of the question because their foremost responsibility is to gather water from a local source. If they are lucky enough to receive an education, many of the young girls are forced to drop out once they have hit puberty because the majority of schools do not provide proper sanitation

Organization, this is “one of the world’s most serious health and development challenges.” Globalization is the development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade. Although there are many positive outcomes of globalization such as more wealth and equality in all parts of the world, there are some negative outcomes as well. One major example of a consequence of globalization is the AIDS epidemic. This is partially because of international travel and population mixing

statistics of The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) shows that the undernourished in Africa has increased approximately by 10% within 2004 and 2012 ("The State of Food Insecurity in the World" 10). Meanwhile,

1. Introduction Globalization is the proximate and multidimensional set of political, economic, social, and technological integration around the globe. The increasing interconnectedness among countries can be seen through the prism of globalization. Essentially, the lives of people living in distant cities like Bangalore and Silicon Valley are brought closer as a result of this phenomenon. Drivers of this adjacent include; the expansion of trade, technological exchange, labor movement and investments

highest percentages of this mortality are mostly in Sub Saharan Africa. It is not easy to give the exact number of deceased children because lots of the deaths are not recorded. Vital registrations emphasize less the number of dead children than number of children born because, most of the time, people refrain from talking about death (Zuberi, Sibanda, & Udjo, 2005, p. 108). In fact, thousands and thousands of children die each year in Africa. IGME, the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality

forms of family structures is polygyny which has been eroded through modernity and changes in culture. A unique culture, polygyny, particularly practiced in the Sub-Saharan Africa. According to Grey (2008), “Of the twenty-nine nations in the world classified as having high rates of polygyny, twenty-seven are located in sub-Saharan Africa, where the incidence of co-wives is ten times that found in other polygynous

4. In general, the reason of high levels of poverty in Sub-Saharan according to Jeffrey Sachs is that unlike countries in Asia, African countries failed to get onto the ladder of development which means exporting manufactures and services in world markets, and linked to the world in the networks of production, trade, finance, and technology. There are two main reasons why Sub-Saharan African countries fail to get into globalization. Firstly, the corruption and mismanagement of its leaders. Corruption

For African sub-Saharan countries, asymmetric warfare has erupted since their independence and they have developed internal, regional and multinational strategies to respond to threats of modern warfare. In other words, the concept of asymmetric warfare means using of unconventional tactics against a superior opponent operational objectives. So, every country has adapted a national strategy of Defense to respond to asymmetric threats. For example the Special Operation Forces or light infantry units

Introduction: Financial theory in most of the situations supports the positive effect of globalization and openness in trade for developing nation’s economic growth, whereas some theorists disagree to the long term gains of liberalization in trade on country’s economy. Staring from this general perception of economists on liberalization of trade, the purpose of this article is to put more thoughts on “The Importance of Trade in Stimulating the Economies of Developing Nations” Trade policy for developing