Posted on 10/17/2015 1:28:16 PM PDT by Lorianne
The number of Africans trapped in poverty has surged by around 100 million over the past quarter century, the World Bank said on Friday, despite years of economic growth and multi-million dollar aid programs.
The report's figures, described as "staggering" by the bank's Africa head Makhtar Diop, showed widespread malnutrition, and rising violence against civilians, particularly in central regions and the Horn of Africa.
"It is projected that the world's extreme poor will be increasingly concentrated in Africa," Diop added in a foreword.
A surge in population meant the proportion of Africans in poverty had actually fallen since 1990, but the actual numbers were up.
In a major study of households taking stock of African economies and societies after two decades of relatively strong growth, the Bank said 388 million - 43 percent of the sub-Saharan region's 900 million people - lived on less than $1.90 a day.
In 1990, at the start of the study period, the ratio was 56 percent, or 284 million.
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What with ALL our own problems what with our own magic negro,
I really do not give a damn about africa or its people aabout now.
Obama’s created 200 million in this country in only 6 years.....Wrong. We have no poor in the US. We have (or had) capitalism.
I don't know, truly, what that is a barometer of, other than possibly coming from slightly better stock than others.
The door is held wide open for them. It's free. They'll rarely, if ever, be failed.
Conversely, THAT alone will tell you all you need to know about the cultural rot of their communities. Some leftist do gooder will virtually fill out the paper work for you and practically drive you to your first class and still most never go.
Also, if you are a first generation African, my god, that is like gold to the preening and pretentious academic elite. How do you think Obama got so far? Take it back a generation and why do you think his mother was so enamored with the idea of having a half African child, Indonesian husband, etc?
My country is sick. A good chunk of it anyway.
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