(Ebook) Poverty in Africa 1st Edition by Thomas W Beasley ISBN 161728565X 9781617285653

(Ebook) Poverty in Africa 1st Edition by Thomas W Beasley ISBN 161728565X 9781617285653

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ISBN 10: 161728565X

ISBN 13: 9781617285653 

Author: Thomas W. Beasley 

Over the past few decades poverty has emerged as a global problem and a global agenda item in need of action. For that reason, the United Nations made its eradication the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG). The MDG's plan is for extreme poverty to be eliminated by 2015. Poverty is more of a concern on the African continent than elsewhere. Three fourths of poor people in Western and Middle Africa âe" an estimated 90 million people âe" live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. One in five lives in a country affected by warfare. In conflict-torn countries such as Angola, Burundi, Mozambique and Uganda, the capacity of rural people to make a livelihood has been dramatically curtailed by warfare, and per capita food production has plummeted. A child dies every three seconds from AIDS and extreme poverty, often before their fifth birthday and more than one billion people do not have access to clean water. Every year six million children die from malnutrition before their fifth birthday. This book brings together new research on programs and policies from around the globe related to poverty in Africa and its elimination or alleviation.

Table of contents:

1. The Impact of Road Infrastructure on Poverty Reduction in Africa
2. "We Are the First Doctors Here At Home", Women's Perspective on Sanitary Conditions in Mozambique
3. Livelihood Diversification, De-Agrarianisation and Social Differentiation: Comparative Analysis of Rural Livelihoods from South Africa and Kenya
4. Poverty and Maternal Health in Malawi
5. Oyster Mushroom Cultivation for Resource-Poor Farmers in Southern Africa
6. Chinese Policies towards Africa: Poverty Alleviating or Poverty Promoting?
7. The Evolution and Dynamics of Urban Poverty in Zambia
8. The Role of Small Scale Survivalist Enterprises in Generation of Household Incomes in Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, South Africa
9. Gender Inequality and Poverty: The Kenyan Case
10. The Globalization-AIDS-Poverty Syndrome in Africa

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