Why Angola Needs Assistance Case Study

It has been known that Angola is the second largest oil producer in Africa and helps the country’s economy to upsurge, but, unfortunately, the profit just secures the rich groups and not helping the poor families. Thor Halvorssen from HRF wrote that Minaj’s performance for the said event was paid by the Angola’s government, who’s “involved in gross human rights violation” and her involvement was “improper.”

Angola, formerly Portuguese West Africa, is the seventh largest country in Africa. The country can be divided into three major regions: the coastal plain, a transition zone, and the vast inland plateau. Angola has a tropical climate with its vegetation including tropical rain forests, savannas, grasslands, palm trees and even deserts. A great variety of animal life ranging from elephants, rhinoceros, giraffes, and even crocodiles can also be found in this African country (Microsoft 1).

Humanitarian problems (which would be solved by Developmental aid) far out way the conflict problem (which would could be solved my military aid.) Proof of this comes from state.gov where they state “the Sahel faced a serious humanitarian crisis in 2012 brought on by a severe drought and failed harvests that put 18.7 million people at risk for food insecurity, including one million children at risk of severe acute malnutrition.” Furthermore proof that military is not of much use, comes from Scott Johnson in Newsweek, where he speaks on the terrorists in the Sahel, He states that the terrorists which many people are worried about and demand military action to

This money is never seen by African civilians, only corrupt government officials. By giving them money, they have become dependent since they realize that even though there are still wars and poverty and hunger, we will continue to shovel in billions of dollars even if the cause is not defined (Doc 9). There are no penalties if long-term problems do not get solved. This gives the government no incentive to solve long-lasting problems. The Wakandan ambassador himself stated that he does not want assistance from the West, as we have “already done enough damage." With that said, the best thing we can do is send in United Nations peacekeepers to reinstate the ceasefire for as long as possible, until we can think of a better plan, but this is only a temporary solution. Foreign aid from the United States may be one of the main causes for both corrupt governments and continuous fighting, poverty, and disease (Doc 9, Doc 12). Africa has become dependent on the kind of aid we provide—financial. What we need is to support them with opportunities of peace. Not only can the West reduce financial aid, we can open markets in Africa for agricultural goods as well as minerals. This would be helping local citizens directly and also open opportunities for our own

In the late nineteenth century the European powers of the world began imperializing Africa. This annexation, occupation, and division of African territory has since led to much strife within the continent and has caused many struggles politically. This period known as the “Scramble for Africa” has led to the many problems that Africa faces today and has been the root of several wars in Africa to assume control. After World War II many European imperialists began to give African nations autonomy. This seemed like a step forward for African nations, but without any plan to transition into self governance many African nations have faced bloody civil wars and corruption. Along with political struggles, numerous African nations face rising debt and other economic problems. Many of these political and economic issues stem from the “Scramble for Africa”. Once the European countries left Africa had very little to support itself. To explain the issues left by imperialism the three African nations of Rwanda, South Africa, and Sierra Leone will be put under the scope.

Addressing the most important factor – lack of literacy – it can be noted that the education expenditures in Sierra Leone is 2.9% of GDP (2012)1. An increase in investment in the education system, and enforcement is the most effective way to increase literacy rates. In an interview with the International Monetary Fund, the question is posed: “Oil wealth is not always a blessing. In actual fact, countries like Nigeria have struggled in managing the resource effectively. How can the CEMAC countries avoid the pitfalls that other countries have fallen into? ” The simple answer given by Sharmini Coorey, Director of the IMF's Institute for Capacity Development replies; “Another important thing is investing in people. In the book, we focus on how to achieve inclusive growth and one of the most obvious and relatively easy ways of making inclusive growth is to spend your oil money on better health and education.17” In investing in the people, a country is investing in their future. Censorship isn’t generally accepted in Sierra Leone and so with the creation of privately owned newspaper, radio, and television companies, it allows the private owners to give people the unbiased, truthful and accurate news16. In the research done, my conclusion is that Sierra Leone has a good basis for media, however it is the literacy and monetary issues which hold

In the early 2000's the World Bank supplied $4.2 billion dollars to a project entitled the "Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline to the Atlantic Ocean." The goal of the project was to provide Chad an opportunity to grow its infrastructure and provide the economy with jobs. The project was done under the agreement that the money would be spent on improving Chad as a country with international supervisions. The negative outcomes of this were a misuse of the money. In 2005 the president of Chad declared the oil money would be used to fund the general budget of the country and to purchase weapons. This was rather unfortunate and unproductive for the country and hindered the overall goal of this project.

Just remember that the indigenous communities oppose Mr. Correa’s intention to run for office again in 2017 by reforming the Constitution, which limits presidents to two terms, and reject his governing style, which is predicated on maintaining stringent control of state institutions. Corruption in Rafael Correa’s Presidency has gone under investigation and the money wasted on public works projects and the high salaries paid for government employees.

The biggest problem with this disaster is that ultimately the people of Chad and Cameroon must repay the loans, it comes out of the equity share they receive from the oil companies operating the project. Those funds that are paying off the loans could have benefited the people of Chad as intended, but instead they went to pay for weapons of war so that President Idris Deby could stay in power through "rigged elections"

Angola is one of the many African countries which suffered from the Portuguese colonisation in earlier years. The colonisation these African countries suffered from (specifically Angola), began in the mid eighteenth century (Santos, 2010), where European countries identified the many resources that these countries were rich in, and found an opportunity to possess them through migrating to these countries and taking over the governance in these countries, changing the system in a way that was best suitable for them.

Misused Money, Over $500 billion (U.S.) has been sent to African nations in the form of direct aid. The consensus is that the money has had little long term effect. In addition, most African nations have borrowed substantial sums of money. However, a large percentage of the money was either been invested in weapons (money that was spent back in developed nations and

Trade, not aid, is the key to economic growth in developing countries. To what extent do you agree with this statement?

Over the last 50 years, the world has struggled to maintain an economic balance and stability, while flourishing countries try to maintain a steady income to support its people and relations with other countries. Therefore, when a continent like Africa fails to maintain a stable government and economy, super powers such as America decide to intervene with its relations. Africa has great potential to become another pillar of the world’s economic structure with its mass amounts of uncultivated land. Unfortunately, corruption and irresponsible governments hinder that progress. Foreign aid while helpful should be limited to a yearly amount because it allows the government to repudiate responsibility and gives room for corruption; it creates a

Harvard Business School’s Case Study “Aid, Debt Relief, and Trade: An agenda for fighting World Poverty” outlines the steps, and missteps, that the world community has taken since World War II to address the efficacy of international assistance. The study focuses on international financial institutions (IFIs) and their ability to help poor nations break out of poverty and the possible obligations of rich, developed countries to assist the heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs). Additionally, the study seeks to see if this assistance has been and can be parlayed into growth and investment for the HIPCs.

4 Analyze the effects of the cold war on apartheid in South Africa or on another specified issue and region or country.