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Sub-Saharan Africa
Caroline Sullivan
Wal-Mart Makes Slow Progress Navigating Africa’s Challenges In 2010, Wal-Mart Stores Inc had invested into South Africa with $2.4 billion on a stake for the company Massmart. The company went into it fast without knowing too much of what to expect and their result was not well. Citizens were anticipating lower prices and cheaper goods and said that’s not what they received. Going into African retail is a very risky business for companies because not many have and those that have, very few have succeeded. The phrase “Africa Rising” was invented because it is thought to be the next booming place for retail companies even though the only big succession has been from the company Shoprite. In conclusion, after Wal-Mart’s mistake, companies are focusing on Europe and Asia where there are shopping malls and slowly working into Africa.
Unicef Report Describes Grim Trends for the Poorest Children Recent data collected by Unicef shows that children in Sub- Saharan Africa need more help. Unicef’s help was trying to stop poverty, hunger, child mortality, gender inequality, illiteracy, and environmental degradation has had the opposite effect as desired. If current trends continue, by 2030 68 million children under 5 will die mostly from preventable causes. Now Unicef is focusing on finding children who are the most vulnerable and helping them live as long as possible.
World Food Prices Fall Further in June
In response to the recent failure of the international community to prevent the famine crisis in the Horn of Africa since July 2011, Suzanne Dvorak the chief executive of Save the Children wrote that, “We need to provide help now. But we cannot forget that these children are wasting away in a disaster that we could - and should - have prevented” she added, “The UN estimates that every $1 spent in prevention saves $7 in emergency spending.” (Dvorak, 2011).
We live in a country where all children go to school to gain an education and 25% of them will go onto receive some type of college degree. Compare this to low-income countries, in which children are 16 times as likely to die prior to their fifth birthday (Nickitas, Middaugh & Aries, 2016). Beyond the lens of our smartphones, Facebook friends and Nike sneakers is a world full of desperate people wishing to have enough food to eat for today. Many parts of the world lack sanitation, safe housing, sparse medical care and no medication. The global health issue are everyone’s problems not only for the sake of altruism but, with the increase in global travel for routine business and pleasure, dangerous pathogen are no longer confine by boarders. The Ebola outbreak four years ago, proved the necessity of a global solution to global health issues. The collaborative practice of several world health agencies and economically developed countries along with the use of volunteers, statistical updates, the latest literature and practices kept this outbreak mostly contained to its region of origin and the death toll to approximately 11,000 people (mainly in West Africa) (WHO,
Walmart's acquisition of Massmart was a strong move due to the normal enthusiasm for costs business procedures and Massmart was a retail mammoth in Africa (Clifford, 2010). Africa had changed into an engaging domain to collaborate in view of its solid cash related headway beginning late (Karen Robson, 2013). Walmart at the time was needing to also build up their affiliation, and saw making open doors in Africa (Karen Robson, 2013). Obtaining Massmart will give Walmart access to sub-Saharan nations where there was a noteworthy measure of potential for business extension (Karen Robson, 2013). Walmart looked for range into their market since they are reasonable to show off things as a social event to chop down pay comprehensive purchasers (Karen Robson, 2013). Africa was the range and Massmart is the business that will hold fast to Walmart's comprehensive advancement (Karen Robson, 2013).
Lastly, poor children live in bad environments which will most definitely affect their health and well-being. It is needless to say that one can find many poor children in a third world country. In third world countries, not only is there a lack of access to food, there are also a lack of clean water, clothes, and shelters. Some children are even forced to sleep on the streets because they are so poor. Moreover, these children are used as labor in poorer countries and are forced to endure long, strenuous hours in dangerous conditions (Hansen). These conditions are certainly not suitable for children and will traumatize them as they grow older. Children living in harsh environments, especially third world countries, experience such atrocious lives that it is nearly impossible not to feel sympathy for them. In general, children who are in poverty suffer from formidable risks that have the potential to ruin their health.
As affluent as society is today, we must recognize the less fortunate and how they get there. As we learn more about the poverty-stricken, we can understand them better to aid them and break the cycle. Overwhelming amounts of people do not realize the global pandemic that poverty is today. The statistics are heartbreaking. Over half of the children in the world live in poverty, and there are nearly 2.2 billion children in the world. Campaigns have been established to recognize poverty globally. The effectiveness of these campaigns remains relatively undisclosed, yet they are still continuous. The methods used to advocate for and promote awareness for poverty vary depending on the community, this, as a result, ultimately determines the impact of the poverty campaigns.
In developing countries ten million children die every year from poverty related causes before the age of five.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is an international organization present in 190 countries (Unicef, n.d.). It is an agency focused on the area of maternal and child health. Recently, the organization is providing fresh water and food for mothers and children, education for mothers and girls, and immunization programs for children (Unicef, n.d.). The advantages for this program are the benefits to the education and health of the women and children, but the disadvantages are ability to retrieve funds all the time, and providing care to everyone. They have to have a focused topic, like they do, in order to start to care for the population. There are many issues in the third world countries that go beyond the abilities of one organization,
Children account for nearly half of the world’s extreme poor and yet over nine hundred million people, one in seven people, are still living in extreme poverty. Many are kids. The latest survey conveyed by the UNICEF organisation,
Children sadly tend to suffer the most due to poverty, “1 billion children worldwide are living in poverty.” Many catch diseases, such as AIDS, before the
Most of the time, when you think of kids, you think of miniature people with no cares in the world. You think of innocent children who haven’t experienced the adversity of life. However, in Angola, that is almost never true.
• India's $250 billion retail business is the eighth largest in the world and has the potential to grow 7 per cent by 2011. [McKinsey Report] For a company already dominating the world markets, this is an un-passable opportunity.
Trader Joe’s is growing with stability in the USA market, therefore, could be a great moment to enter in a new market. Nonetheless, the cultural differences with South Africa, the lack of experience in international markets, the lack of knowledge on the South Africa market, the inequalities of the local regulation and government structure with the USA, suggest that Greenfield entry mode could represent an excessive risk for Trade Joe’s.
The superimposing factor that gives South Africa such an advantage over other prospective African business environments is that it possesses of a very powerful and sophisticated vantage-point geographically. South Africa is strategically located for manufacturing and exportation into several regions globally and can be an unmitigated platform for MNC’s who may be interested in a venture within this region. The important advantages include regional competitiveness, combined with reduced operational costs and a significantly prominent market access (Safrica.info, 2011).
UNICEF insists that the survival, protection and development of children are universal development imperatives that are integral to human progress.
UNICEF is addressing these threats as it works with the governments, humanitarian agencies, civil and community