People in poorer countries have a tendency to have more children that much is true but it’s NOT THE CAUSE of global poverty nor is it the reason why Africa specifically has suffered economically on average more than other continents. Hmmm the IDF, arbitrary drawing up of borders, the world bank, neoliberalism and austerity being pushed on African countries, imperialism, exploitation of natural resources, multi-national companies reaping profits off African labor and resources etc. so Macron can go suck a dick.
Between 1970 and 2002 African nations received 540 billion dollars in loans from wealthy nations and the World Bank and since then they have paid back 550 billion, however they still owe 295 billion due to interest accrued in this time period.
This was data from 2004 but the data is still relevant. Struggling nations needed assistance and they were given debt.
We create the problem and the solution and then, fucking surprise, our solution is just another problem.
It is pure exploitation.
That barely scratches the surface though. Post-colonial countries were left with massive debts from decades or centuries of exploitation.
“For all ‘developing’ countries, total external debt owed in 2011 was $4.9 trillion and over the course of that one year they paid $620 billion servicing these debts.* in the same year, the total foreign aid supplied to the ‘developing world’ through the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD was just $133.5 billion.*
This means that, in 2011 alone, for every $1 the creditor nations gave the so-called ‘developing world’ in foreign aid, the debtor nations gave almost $5 back in debt repayments.
The whole premise of international development is called into question when the nations involved are giving with one hand while taking five times as much as the other. Rather than the mainstream narrative – of advanced industrial nations helping to ‘develop’ inexplicably backward Third World nations, the mask is off. There is no ‘developing’ world. Instead there are a host of countries being deliberately decivilized, in order that corporatised states benefit economically and geopolitically. The Debt Trap has been used to reorientate national economies to the service of unsustainable and unethical debt burden, in order to transfer wealth to the creditor institutions and nations.”
Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy – Chapter One – Kerry Anne Mendoza
That’s not all. Several colonialism countries either purposely destroyed the entire economy of their former colonies before leaving or forced their former colonies to accept massive depths in ‘peace treaties’. European countries are still profiting from their former colonies through decolonization depths.
France in particular still makes a lot of money of this system and has control over the national reserves of many of it’s former colonies, holding their economies hostage: http://siliconafrica.com/france-colonial-tax/ & https://afrolegends.com/2017/05/01/the-11-components-of-the-french-colonial-tax-in-africa/
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