Using a country of your choice‚ discuss the impact of the Bretton Wood Institutions on Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Introduction The Bretton woods institutions are the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. They were setup at the end of the Second World War in order to rebuild the devastated post-war economy and to promote international economic cooperation. The main focus of the IMF is to maintain exchange stability by harmonising its members’ monetary policies1
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Change and Continuity in West Africa By Celine Sawiris During the fifteenth century‚ West Africa embraced many different civilizations and many diverse cultures. Many countries in Africa were part of the Muslim world‚ including Morocco in the west and Egypt in the east. The West African kingdoms experienced many changes‚ such as their beliefs changing from animism to Islam‚ making them organized states‚ while these kingdoms maintained traditional methods of trade. As well as having the advantage
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the Middle East‚ and Africa. The Western nations‚ pursuing new raw materials‚ established control‚ and became very powerful. The non-Western world obtained many benefits‚ such as industrialization and public education. While imperialism proved beneficial‚ it also resulted in warfare‚ racism‚ economic discrimination‚ and slavery. Both India and sub-Saharan Africa were affected by European imperialism. Between 1750 and 1914‚ European imperialism in India and sub-Saharan Africa created a similar effect
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HISTORY OF WEST AFRICA Overview The history of West Africa is the long history of human movements‚ incursions‚ displacements‚ intermixtures of peoples‚ and of the impact of these on the beliefs‚ attitudes‚ social and political organization to the peoples West Africa. The history of West Africa can be divided into three major periods: first‚ its prehistory‚ second‚ colonial period‚ in which Great Britain and France controlled nearly the whole of the region and the post-independence era‚ in
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influences sub-Saharan African Culture The relationship between the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa is complex and can be examined from many perspectives. It could be looked upon as a cultural level‚ given the intertwining of historical association‚ settlement‚ and religion between populations through time. Lastly‚ the relationship may be examined within the context of a maturing alternative Islamic development agenda which intends to be established and nurtured in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa
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century‚ which devastated African societies and those who argue Europeans that had extended older social‚ economic and political arrangements that already existed in most of Africa. From the class discussions and reading my opinion of the issue is Europeans just commercialized and exploited the slave trading business‚ so Europeans should not be at fault for starting the slave trade. Slavery has been practiced for almost the all of recorded history; the African slave trade has left a legacy which cannot
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Argue for the view that underdevelopment in sub-Saharan Africa today is due primarily to the legacy of colonialism. Justify your argument using two countries as primary examples. The impact of the colonial powers is often identified as the primary explanation for underdevelopment in today’s Sub-Saharan Africa. Although the colonial period is often seen as short‚ the long term effects have had a deep impact upon the infrastructure of the continent with subsequent failure of numerous governments
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The Sub-Saharan long distance commodity and slave trade as well as the syncretic interweaving of Islamic culture and traditional African culture accounts for Africa’s major influence as a superpower. Traders from all over the world were drawn to Africa’s riches in gold‚ ivory‚ and human beings. The fact that Africa was rich in resources posed influence in itself. Considering that a great number of the visiting traders were Muslims and they begin to intermarry and form relationships – economic
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The Health Care That Never Exists What if you were to live in a world with no source of health care whatsoever? How about living in a world where diseases are common and you are living with unhygienic sources of water? In the world of Sub-Saharan countries of Africa‚ which can include Congo and Uganda‚ poverty is very common. Being poor in the world is a horrible thing‚ and many are blamed for the wrong purpose of poverty as you do not have access to many things. Many African children and adults
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the guilt of not conducting injustice (west 28c). In contrast to the sub-Saharan society‚ a good person is one who accounts to the goodness of the society at first
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