For example, in Africa, the extent of the health problem is exacerbated because many countries lack the resources and infrastructure to manage the economic and health systems needed to control many diseases ("Health-). ... The United States has given $9.581 million in aid to Africa ("The-). ... The average income of the poorest fifth of families in Latin America fell $210 or 1.8 percent ("Poverty Rates-). ... In Africa millions of dollars have been given to help improve their poor state, but their poverty rates only continue to increase (Raghaven). ... For example, aid has been given to Af...

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In Africa therefore, the development tends to have a very short history, with development programmes only being set up in the late 19th century. ... Development in the West and North America has been steady and successful. ... In Africa, economic situation is very depressing especially, in the cases of Chad, Ghana and Zambia. There have not been the improvements in living standards which have become apparent in many Asian and Latin American countries. Africa is performing a peripheral role in the capitalist-world economy. ...

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It was known that the American government was going through a financial deficit, and millions of people were living under the pressure of unemployment. Undoubtedly, if American people did not receive help from the U.N., plenty of them would live with hunger and for those who were sick, probably they could not even afford medical treatment. ... Due to the fact that most African countries are undeveloped， military conflicts happen everyday which makes African people live in dangerous space. ... In African countries, however, limited medical devices and resources are available. Therefore, extra...

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Burundi did not offer Belgium a market for manufactures, and the region had almost nothing worth extracting for local use or for transport to Europe or America. ... Africa, Ambassador Melady observed, would lose its moral standing in the Third World; the genocide would also undermine black Africa's condemnation of apartheid in South Africa. ... African states, more ethnically heterogeneous than Western European nation-states, exhibited a paranoia about their independence and national security, and African leaders saw malevolent plots by the West against their independence. This misapp...

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Many parts of Africa for example have conditions that are dry, with the only time it rains is during the monsoon season, this is only once a year. ... The numbers of people that do not receive the proper amount of intake of food and vitamins in Africa are much higher than compared to those living in Canada. The rate of diseases that people contract are higher in Africa then Canada as well. ... Foreign aid is part of Canada and the United States of America's response to world challenges. ...

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Situated in the "horn of Africa," Somalia is the shape of the number seven or a rhino horn. ... It also has the longest coastline in Africa with an incredible length of 3,025 kilometers. ... American business executive Jack Welch says, "Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.... An American citizen has the chance to travel to another country to gain new experience that he/she may not find in the United States. ... Somalia is also ineligible for...

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Amongst 2.2 billion children globally, 1 billion live under poverty2 , with a preponderance of them in developing countries within the African continent, demonstrating the link between poverty and child labour statistically. Child labour accounts for 22% of the workforce in Asia, 32% in Africa, 17% in Latin America, 1% in US, Canada, Europe and other wealthy nations. Bringing continents into perspective, Asia tops the charts with an employment of 114 million children while Latin America and the Caribbean region have 14 million child labourers. Africa has the highest percentage of children aged...

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Financial integration helps to combat health challenges: A case of Sierra Leone After the end of the civil war, Sierra Leone, the small beautiful developing nation in West Africa experience several health challenges in various forms. ... It would support the ailing economy to deal with their economic challenges in 2015 and beyond (Africa against Ebola.2015). ...

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The status of China as the 'world factory' made the Americans " relocate [their] domestic and labour-intensive industries" to China, which then develops a symbiotic relationship between Chinese and American economies (Uberoi, 2008 p. 124). ... Chinese investments and technology have also been directed to Africa in hope to alleviate poverty (Hickey & Guo, 2010 p. 9). ... Guo and Hickey (2010, p. 43) report that " China offers aid to over 160 countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the South Pacific in the form of grants, interest-free loans and...

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LDC's (Least Developed Countries) are a sub-group identified by the United Nations; these economies suffer from the lowest GDP per capita levels in the world - less than $US900 per year. 34 of the 49 labeled LDC's are located in sub-Saharan Africa, and include countries such as Sierra Leone and Mozambique. ... The fact is if Africa, East Asia, South Asia and Latin America were to increase their share of world exports by 1c, the gains would lift 128 million people out of poverty. ... However, foreign aid has decreased as a result predominantly in African nations who are exper...

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In Africa and Latin America, for example, the richest 5 percent of the population earn almost 25 percent of the national income, while in industrial countries they earn only 13 percent (World Politics, pg.42). ... For example, shipping a standard container from Baltimore to the Ivory Coast costs about $3,000, while sending that same container to the landlocked Central African Republic costs $13,000 (World Politics, pg.43). ...

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For example over 63% of American citizens are connected to the Internet but in Africa the Internet can only be accessed by 0.5% of the population. ... The problem of culture furthers itself when you take into account the content that can be accessed on the web there is an abundant amount of data on the history of American culture but very little on some of those small African nations. ...

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The term, "Third World " is a name applied to the technologically less-advance, or developing nations, nations like Asia, Africa, and Latin America. ... And that is mostly where the money goes, back to America . ... 2 Foreign aid is a powerful tool in promoting American interests overseas. ... Other, often needier countries, receive less money because they are not considered as important to American security. ... In the 1970s and 1980s, American officials sent large amounts of military and economic aid to the Philippines. ...

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Globalization was one of the topics of the UN Summit in Johannesburg (South Africa) this year. ... We all think Coca-Cola as an American firm. However, as of 1998, North America accounts for only 34% of Coca-Cola's sales " and only 24% of Coke's profits. ... It used to be an American firm and now it is an international firm which is spread all over the world. ... In one of the series, the company where Haluk works is sold to an American firm, because the American firm wants to work in the Azerbaijan market. ...

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However, in America, the idea of a League was not very popular and Woodrow Wilson needed the approval of his Congress. The Republicans campaigned for America to be isolationist and it won. So, when the League opened for business in January 1920, the American chair was empty and it never joined. ... They discussed economic sanctions but without America (Japan's main trading partner) they would be meaningless. ... Italy invaded Abyssinia in October 1935 primarily because he wanted to increase the Italian Empire in Africa and he wanted raw materials and living space for the increasing Italia...

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The "war" in Iraq is a war of America vs. Iraq or America vs. ... The Anthrax scare in America recently was nothing compared to what could really happen. ... The good news is that Ebola is an extremely rare disease that is found in Africa and it takes a lot of time, resources and expertise to engineer such a virus. ...

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Canada is the north most nation of North America, formerly a colony of both Britain and France contributing to multilingual culture, with a wide array of environmental landscapes, on either side of the nation are the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. ... In the early 1960's the American government attempted to change the newly formed government of Cuba by launching an invasion which took place at the Bay of Pigs. ... Despite the American embargo Canada and Cuba have been engaging in ever growing trade relations in 2002 the total was 752 million dollars worth of trade occurred between the two...

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Many Americans built bomb shelters where they would live during the inevitable nuclear exchange that would surely accompany World War III between the Soviet Union and the U.S. ... Through the early years of the cold war Americans believed that nuclear weapons were war fighting tools that were likely to be used in an international conflict involving both the US and the Soviet Union; however, nuclear weapons were not used on China during the Korean War for fear that the Soviet Union might retaliate with a nuclear weapons attack on the U.S. ... US Policy began to shift subtlety in 1990 to also ...

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For example, South Africa developed the technology to produce nuclear missiles, and then dismantled them. (1) In doing so it became the first nation to voluntarily giving up its nuclear missiles. ... The amounts of material are usually small, less than a kilogram. (6) Many smugglers are caught every year. (5) We do not know what is missing, where it might be heading, or the whereabouts of the material that we do have. (7) When the Soviet Union fell lots of nuclear material was left with out protection. (1) In many incidents, the breakdown in the legal and police systems has led to such incid...

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In Laura Offenhartz Greene's book Child Labor: Then and Now, child labor is described as "the abuse and misuse of children at work work that exploits children- (p. 9). In every nation, in all times, employers have exploited children and continue to do so even in today's modern world. Over the pa...

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Racism is prejudice or discrimination based on the belief that race is the primary factor determining human traits and abilities. Racism includes the belief that genetic or inherited differences produce the inherent superiority or inferiority of one race over another. In the name of protecting their...

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The choice of the nonpermanent members is based on regions: three seats for Africa, two for Latin America, one for Asia, one for the Arab nations, one for Eastern Europe and two for Western Europe. ... Many insiders of the UN say that it is impossible to have an effective United Nations without very strong American implication in the organization. ...

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