Why is Africa so under-developed?

inequality is South Africa, which has a population of 55.91 million and a GDP of 294.8 billion USD when researching the topic of income inequality this surprised our group when doing research for this topic because South Africa is factually known as one of the more developed countries in Africa regarding infrastructure and leadership. The wealth distribution is a very important reference to the well-being of a country's citizens and overall quality of life for its population. South Africa is known for

the opportunity? 2. Why do companies tend to thrive in global markets when their country of origin enjoys a comparative advantage in their industry? 3. Explain how to calculate the balance of trade. How does the growing United States trade deficit impact the economy? Why? 4. Explain the meaning of “strong” currency and “weak” currency. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? 5. Why is outsourcing such an attractive way

walk so she could have another baby. However, domesticated plants help to create a sedentary society where people can reproduce with ease, form permanent communities, and fund a political government through

the episode is how Europe dominated Africa, how they fought through diseases and land wars with local tribes. During this adventure major diseases spread across Africa, affecting Europeans and Africans, causing thousands to die. The main two diseases were smallpox and Malaria, for example in the video it stated that, “It was believed Smallpox originated in the tropical region of Africa, Africans were certainly similar with the disease, they had even developed methods of immunity for life.” This was

4520 29, October 2015 Dead Aid Review Dambisa Moyo’s Dead Aid was an enjoyable read that presents a well-rounded discussion pertaining to foreign aid, and does not particularly aim to please. I believe Moyo’s opinion and thoughts regarding aid in Africa to be mostly valid, based upon her upbringing in Zambia and her extensive and diverse educational background. Dambisa does fantastic work of noting other’s publishings, projects, and/or approaches to the effects of aid on underdeveloped nations. The

1. What are the origins of the concepts of varna and jati, and why has the varna-jati system of social organization lasted so long? What social needs did they serve, and how are these social functions addressed in our culture?             During the Vedic Age of Indian civilization, it is believed that after the collapse of the Indus Valley civilization some of the kinship groups and patriarchal families migrated into India.  As some within the Aryas tribe (light-skinned) entered into the Ganges

Within the scholarship of Africa, it have become common for groups to have been boxed into the categorization of being a contrasting “other” to those of the “Western world.” This includes the examination of the many systems of care that intersect within local communities. This became especially evident during the colonization, and frequently the subjugation, of many regions of the African continent. These events cannot simple be placed within simple groups of either good or bad, but is more representative

December 5, 2016 Why literacy rate in South Africa is higher than that of West Africa? The countries in South Africa are already done much better in the development work along with education system by increasing the literacy rate in the country whereas the countries of West Africa are still too much back warded about the literacy in their society. These two parts of the continent are opposite to each other about the awareness and beneficial factor of education. In countries of South Africa, people are

situation in the rural area in Africa is. Apart from that, a bottle of the polluted water can be a killer to Africans because it contains many different kinds of virus

island of Papua New Guinea. There, in 1974, Yali, a man who lived there asked Jared Diamond a seemingly simple question: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” To Diamond that seemingly simple question turned into a rigorous process of finding where inequality began. It was from that question, that Diamond developed inquires of his own to find the roots of inequality. Jared Diamond knew that it was not an issue about genetics for he