Must be a western,Caucasian privileged, conspiracy behind the whole thing.
100m more poor people in africa?
so... it’s better then british rule and apartheid?
good to see the progressive plans for blacks are the same in africa as they are in the US (detroit... chicago... LA... etc)
at least they’re consistent
Western medicine and technology cut back third world death rates, so their populations skyrocketed.
Meanwhile the West has been having fewer and fewer children.
Hoist with our own petard.
Sounds like a Progressive night dream.
100 million? That’s nothing. Obama’s created 200 million in this country in only 6 years.
This actually changes the whole story and makes the headline a lie. The fact that there are proportionally fewer Africans in poverty than there were in 1990 means that they have been making progress.
Quit feeding them or there will be 200 million!!!
In other news, water is wet.
If the West cut off all aid to Africa, no more food, no more technology, no more medicine, no more money, the poverty rate and the population would drop dramatically. We keep giving them aid, they keep breeding, thus the increase in those in poverty. Africa is a cesspool, and malarial swamp, instead of feeding it, it should be starved.
Measured how?
Hasn’t Obama hashtagged this yet? Why the delay?
Obama must send Planned Parenthood , NOW !!!!!!
“43 percent of the sub-Saharan region’s 900 million people - lived on less than $1.90 a day.”
Sounds like we could outsource our welfare recipients to Africa - we’ll give em $5 a day. When folks are ready to get a job we can think about letting them back in.
Because they produce nothing. Countries that produce prosper.
One bright spot, and perhaps an example other African nations might look to, has been the economic transformation in Ethiopia.
They’ve had 11 straight years of economic growth, with an average annual GDP increase of 10%+ The key to this growth has primarily been a dismantling of state-own enterprises in favor of privatization, easing regulatory burdens, and sound fiscal policy (attracting foreign investment).
To be sure, Ethiopia is far from a market-driven paradise. Citizens still cannot own land (they can only lease it from the government), and a lot of the other problems associated with the 3rd World still linger. They are charting a path to prosperity, however. It’s the only path, IMHO, that will bring the rest of Africa out of grinding poverty. Capitalism works when it is allowed to work.
Now I feel bad about the money this old dying lady in Nigeria is going to send me..
Send them all to Germany and Sweden
What’s to stop them?
It’s open door time!
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.