| dc.contributor.author |
Kamdima, Harry |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2013-05-11T10:40:40Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2013-05-11T10:40:40Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2010-08 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://www.ndr.mw:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/557 |
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| dc.description |
Africa’s economic history since 1960 fits the classical definition of tragedy: potential unfulfilled,
with disastrous consequences (Easterly and Levine. 1997).Collier (1999) points out that African
economic performance has been markedly worse than that of other regions. During the 1980s per
capita GDP declined by 1.3 percent per annum, a full 5 percentage points below the average for
all low income developing countries. During 1990-94 the decline accelerated to 1.8 percent p.a.
and the gap widened to 6.2 percentage points. Cozay(2010) in presenting the situation of Africa
asks the question “Why is Africa Still Poor?”. It is this question that this paper will be
answering. I will start with presenting a writing on why Africa is still poor from a domestic and
external perspective focusing; on policy, geography, and institution, and a look into institution
geography debate, the critic, my view of Africa, and lastly present a new look on Africa. |
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| dc.description.abstract |
Several studies on poverty and economic performance have come to the conclusion that Africa is
the poorest region on the planet earth. Amidst such studies are those by Todaro (2006), Artadi
(2003), Doyle (2009), and Sachs (2003). A more look into the poverty of Africa has made some
to call it Extreme Poverty of Africa amidst which is Cozay (2010). However poverty has been
defined from different perspectives and deferent disciplines. Some have defined poverty in terms
of deprivation while some have gone further to consider relative and absolute status of it |
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| dc.description.sponsorship |
TEVETA |
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| dc.language.iso |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
TEVETA |
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| dc.subject |
Agriculture |
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| dc.subject |
Aid and debt |
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| dc.subject |
Culture |
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| dc.subject |
Education |
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| dc.subject |
Gender |
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| dc.subject |
Governance |
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| dc.subject |
Health |
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| dc.subject |
HIV/AIDS |
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| dc.subject |
Poverty |
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| dc.subject |
Social sciences |
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| dc.subject |
Trade |
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| dc.title |
Why is Africa Still Poor? |
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| dc.type |
Presentation |
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| dc.identifier.eldis |
Eldis |
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