Cause Of Poverty In Sub-Saharan Africa

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ECONOMIC AND GOVERNMENT FAILURE
The impact of economic and governmental administration failure cannot be overemphasized as it has characterized Africa as a continent that constantly seeks foreign aid support and saddled with the burden of child poverty. Corruption being a major factor that causes immense failure of socioeconomic development is the order of the day has its adverse effect on larger African families especially people living in the rural areas. Poverty effects are deeply and complexly connected. On the other hand, it is useful to identify individually the cause and effects of poverty before discerning them in relation to one effect or another. Also, it will help identify major causes of poverty well to know how to eliminate poverty …show more content…

The insufficient infrastructural and institutional linkages such as roads, railways, mobile telecommunication etc. amidst local and international markets which explains the markets are badly integrated over the space and time. The charges of fast population growth are increasing, that is more conception today renders the work of reducing population growth in the future difficult as the younger ones of today are the parents of tomorrow. Generally, agricultural production and food supplies need to be increased greatly to meet the needs of increased growing population which limits the allocation of resources to other socioeconomic sectors of the …show more content…

In Western Africa for instance, there has been a major issue breeding conflicts resulting into the loss of life and property on a large scale where herders move from the overgrazed into farmlands and destroy the farm produce. Therefore, increased population growth has not only influenced poverty on a large scaled but also put the security of life and property at

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