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the amount of money, in the hundreds of billions of
dollars, spent over the last 40 years by the rich donor
nations on African Development Assistance (ODA), and the
number of poor people that actually escaped from poverty
as a result, it is very obvious that all that money
bought very little for the people in sub-Sahara. After
factoring for population growth, the number of people
living on less than $1 a day, rose from 200 million in
1985 to 560 million in 2009. At the end of 2010, average
unemployment in all of sub-Sahara stood at 68% of
able-bodied population while 10,000 children continued
to die daily as a result of hunger. 210 million adults (parents of these
children), continue to earn less than $3
a day in income, while the UN bumps up poverty line in
the region to $1.25 per person per day.
In 1965,
the pre capita GDP in sub-Sahara Africa was 17% of world
average. In 2004, that number had dropped to less than
10% and has gotten even worse by 2011, despite over $600 billion supposedly spent by the
rich nations to help Africa fight poverty and develop.
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