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...what is good that is happening in the world.... People think the Marshall Plan was really very good. The Marshall Plan provided Europe with an amount of money that was equal to about 2-3 percent of Europe’s GNP each year for four years. Sub-Saharan Africa receives each year about 11 percent of its GNP and it has for the last 20 years. And so yes, there’s certainly a case for more foreign aid in a variety of ways. But a huge amount is happening that is positive, and the things that...
Today, sub-Saharan Africa hemorrhages more money in debt payments each year than it spends on health and education combined. Nations that lack the resources to provide basic services for their citizens—less than one percent of HIV positive Africans have access to treatment—must allocate large portions of their budgets to debt payments. Around the globe, poor nations struggling toward growth are finding their efforts stymied by debilitating debt burdens. Even in those cases where countries incurred debt under legitimate regimes, it hardly seems fair to put the interests of rich creditors before the satisfaction...
...third of today’s 15-year-olds in sub-Saharan Africa will die before they are thirty-five, according to the Harvard AIDS Coalition...
...European youngsters between the ages of 5 and 17 are either overweight or obese. Children in North Africa and the Middle East aren't far behind. Across Asia too, childhood obesity is on the rise, and the trend has been documented even in urbanized areas of sub-Saharan Africa...
...Number of those countries that are in sub-Saharan Africa...