multi-national companies and foreign governments. The money given to Africa to help its so-called “development” is referred to as “aid”, when in fact it should be seen as a form of reparations for a history of colonisation
1. What were the causes of Malawi's currency troubles? Currency Fluctuations: Just like goods and services currencies are traded in the money markets. There are various regimes that a country can adopt in order to determine the exchange rates. Flexible...
Last week it was ladies first with the 10 highest paid actresses and their causes and today we’ll be looking at the philanthropic efforts of the 10 highest paid actors in Hollywood based onForbes Magazine’sranking. In the past, I’ve featured similar celebrity lists like the10 Most Charita...
The war in Ukraine is raising food prices across the world due to supply and trade bottlenecks. Developing economies such as Zimbabwe are being hit hardest due to their reliance on the two warring parties for fuel and grain imports. Ukraine is the world's largest producer of sunflower oil. ...
factors towards these anthropogenic activities are: (a) population growth, (b) poverty, (c) expensive alternative building materials, (d) lack of awareness, (e) lack of resources, (f) lack of commitment from the tobacco companies, and (g) market system of the cash crops grown in the ...
In some hospitals in Burundi, the neonatal mortality rate is two times higher than the national average of 4.2% [13]. When compared to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a neighboring country with similar patient settings and tormented by decades of authoritarianism, poverty and civil war...
Research carried out in Senegal and Ghana has pointed out that, lack of access to capital is one of the major causes of poverty. This is because poor households are less likely to receive loans than non-poor households. This situation is different in the case of countries such as Mala...