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...percent increase in agricultural water use by the year 2025. The WRI study translates these trends into the immediate impact to humans: by 2025, over 3.5 billion people--a bit under half the world's population--will experience water shortages. Particularly developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa as well as such populous countries as India, Bangladesh and also to a lesser extent China are at a high risk of facing severe water shortages in the near future...
...should, however, be concerned about the stability of regions such as the Indian subcontinent or sub-Saharan Africa. We urge policy maker to formulate clear national security objectives for environmental threats such as global water shortages. U.S. foreign policy should not merely involve fighting wars, but also trying to prevent them, and attacking the problem of water distribution is definitely a good place to start...
Dichter says his goal now is to apply his formula to sub-Saharan nations, where poverty levels are the world's worst. "I believe technology transfers from Asia could be Africa's wave of the future and a boon to its economic growth," he says. "But the challenge is getting venture capital to a region shunned by foreign investors." Sounds like a good match for his talents...
...ELTIS: To continue from the previous answer, the insider-outsider divide was, for whatever reason, much more localized in sub-Saharan Africa. "Africa" as a concept had no meaning for early modern Africans, so that the answer to the question of how could Africans enslave other African, is that they did not know they were African. Thus, on the coast both Europeans and Africans traded outsiders. In addition slavery in Africa was an important method of recruitment for the kinship group ? and the kin group was perhaps more important than the individual as the basic unit of society. Slaves conferred...
...with their lives, to make up for lost time since the communists took over and dumped Vietnam at the bottom of Asia's economic league. Vietnam's per capita gross national product is a paltry $350 a year, according to the World Bank, compared with $510 for sub-Saharan Africa. In February, Le Kha Phieu, the 68-year-old Communist Party chief who runs the country, lashed out at "imperialist forces [who] have expanded the world market everywhere for maximum profit." Such rhetoric flies over the heads of the younger generation. Its members are reading from a different script...