Sub-saharan

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the majority of people in the world living with HIV/AIDS reside in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since there is currently no vaccine to prevent the spread of the infection, there have been countless attempts in the past to control the spread of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. There are multiple ways of infection spread in Sub-Saharan Africa. People are contracting the disease through, drug use, sexual relations, giving birth, and blood-to-blood contact

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

theories of growth and development, explain the contrasting growth experience of China and Sub Saharan Africa post 1980. Economic growth, put simply, is “an increase in the amount of goods and services produced per head of the population over a period of time”; development is inextricably linked with this economic growth. By utilising theories of economic growth and development we can see how the Chinese and Sub-Saharan African economies have emerged, but, more notably, we can use these to look at patterns

Introduction Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) holds the largest population in the world without electricity; about 70% of the total 1.3billion energy-poor around the world . The energy structure in SSA is challenging and dubbed by possessing inadequate capacity and unreliable means with high costs. In addition, the most expensive prices for access to electricity are paid by some of Africa’s poorest. Fortunately, distributed power in Africa does not have any policy regulations or grids to upkeep . Solar energy

How did the Cold War affect Sub-Saharan Africa? What are recent issues troubling Sub Saharan African nations? The end of the Cold War has had profound effects on Africa. On the positive side, it has removed the tendency of outside actors to become intricate in internal and regional quarrelling in striving towards

moment in sub-Saharan Africa, every 3 seconds a child under five dies from AIDS and hunger, and more than 90 percent of the people are suffering long term malnourishment. (World Health Organization) In addition to this, measles are taking the life of a boy almost every minute, when a measles vaccine cost less than $1. (WHO, World Health Organization) "Things are moving in the wrong direction," says Marc Cohen (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Washington). "If we look at sub-Saharan

Sub-Saharan region as low developing countries are claimed to have a low electricity access and modern cooking access though they have a large supply of energy resources. In the recent years, there is a huge jump of their economic performances, however, the improvement is limited because of the inefficiencies of power sector and poor power infrastructure are dragging its back. In line with the population growth in Africa, they all become the constraints of further economic development due to the

Failure of IMF and World Bank Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa Over the last several hundred years, Africa has been deprived of the peace that it so desperately needs. For over 400 years, Africa was subjected to the harsh trans-Atlantic slave trade. Europeans and Americans brutally uprooted millions of Africans and shipped them away. Torn away from their homes, Africans were inhumanely exploited for their labor. The slave trade had a devastating effect not only on those involved

Beginning in the mid-8th century, Islam was the most prominent religion in Sub-Saharan West Africa. One century after the blossoming of Islam (when it spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa), Islam merchants penetrated the Saharan, and quickly spread their beliefs among their new trading partners. While the states of West Africa remained independent from the main empires of Islam, the religion permanently changed the region’s landscape. Not only did Islam become the most popular religion

The intertwined nature of poverty and education, as well as the interplay between the two has constantly been raised in the literature and research of development (Arnove1980; Deininger 2000; Don 2001 & Torres 2003), inter alia in search of the way for achieving universal primary education (UPE) in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is also the focus of international cooperation since UPE is one of the major objectives of international development aid (Aiglepierre & Wagner 2013). The year