Tuesday 13 January 2009

Why is Africa poor?

 Map of Africa

By the year 2000, half the world's poor were in Africa.

It is the only continent to have become poorer in the past 25 years.

This is because of several reasons:

  • Borrowing money
  • Growing cash crops
  • Dictatorship
  • Fighting
  • Population growth
  • Land ownership
  • Climate change
  • Dirty water

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