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...banks have only $6 billion on loan to debt-ridden Africa, the most depressed part of the developing world. But the 42 countries of sub-Saharan Africa owe a total of $80 billion, mostly to foreign governments and organizations like the World Bank. Because of the low prices that African nations are receiving for such key exports as coffee, tea and oil, they cannot import enough food for their drought-stricken populations, much less make payments on foreign debt...
From the world as a whole, the amount of aid per African per year is really very small, just $30 per sub-Saharan African in 2002. Of that modest amount, almost $5 was actually for consultants from the donor countries, more than $3 was for emergency aid, about $4 went for servicing Africa's debts and $5 was for debt-relief operations. The rest, about $12, went to Africa. Since the "money down the drain" argument is heard most frequently in the U.S., it's worth looking at the same calculations for U.S. aid alone. In 2002, the U.S. gave...
...public discourse. Now, black people can legally share water fountains, restaurants and even Harvard classes with non-black people. But while de jure segregation and discrimination are in their death throes, their de facto manifestations are as strong as ever worldwide. Collectively, black infants in America, the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa are nearly ten times more likely to die in their first year than their white American and European counterparts. If a black baby manages to survive her first year, the mere fact that she is black makes her more likely to be malnourished, impoverished, incarcerated, raped, infected with...
...Harvard staff includes Captain, Vice President of Marketing Deena S. Shakir ’08, Vice President of Finance May Habib ’07, who is also a Crimson editor, Vice President for North Africa Ahmed K. El-Hoshy ’06, Vice President for Sub-Saharan Africa Samuel M. Kabue ’06, Vice President for South Asia Dhruva K. Kothari ’06, and Regional Director for North Africa Mahmoud T. Fawzi...
Consider last fall's devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean and U.S. Southeast. Haiti lost around 2,000 lives, while the U.S. Southeast, hit roughly as hard in meteorological terms, lost a few dozen lives. Or consider the worldwide AIDS epidemic, in which the impoverished countries of sub-Saharan Africa, with just 11% of the world's population, have 64% of the cases and 74% of the deaths. Or consider that both Darfur, Sudan, and the U.S. Southwest are suffering from deep and persistent droughts. In Sudan, the droughts have led to hunger, disease and bloodshed, while...