over population in LDC's or underdeveloped countries?
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both. and compare them, that would sure impress your teacher
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Well, the educational level of women in a country is directly related to that countries birth rate (the more educated the women, the lower the birth rate).\n\nSo, yes, I think it is.
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Full participation.  Much like other "underdeveloped" nations, and borderline "developed" nations, that are integrating themselves as much as possible (India in particular), the subsaharan african countries should figure out where they can participate in the global economy.  The big question they must ask, and answer, is what resources do they have to offer that can compete/participate?\n\nI also feel the industrialized nations (mostly Western), need to adjust their attitudes toward international companies opening facilities in underdeveloped nations in general.  While exploitation in any form is unacceptable, there needs to be a different definition of exploitation in some cases, especially in countries where poverty (and likely death) is the only option.  Is it really exploitation when you offer an individual employment at four or five times the local going rate?  If I were in that situation, I'd say no.  However, paying a rate on par with Western standards offers these companies no incentive to move into these nations hindering economic development.  It can also severely upset the economics of a region as, suddenly, there are large influxes of cash, which can cause spiraliing inflation, making matters worse for those without these (relatively speaking) high-paying jobs.
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Yeah I do agree....look at plight of under-priviledge children in India......\n\ncheck out: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Iloveyuva/
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I'm not sure if Lagos is sub saharan, but heres a topic that I used for my Human impact on the environment course last semester. "City-states do not have internal sources of resources causing their average biological footprint to increase dramatically. Although this problem can be dealt with in industrialized nations, will it be possible for third world megalopolous' (like Lagos) to sustain a marginal standard of living?" Thats not verbatim because I can't remember it completely but you hopefully get the idea
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Many poor countries are "developing countries," or "Third World," because they have low "human development." (1).  If "developing countries," can improve their standard of living by increasing life expectancy and literacy, decreasing population growth, and building infastructure, including schools, hospitals, roads, etc., then they could become richer.  (2).  \n\nThe "human development index" or (HDI) measures where countries are in development, and those countries that are low are "poor," and could become richer by improving their "human development," which includes: life expectancy, literacy, education, and standards of living.  (3) \n\nWhen countries can increase savings, increase reliance on the "rule of law," decrease corruption, decrease debt, increase investment in the country by large companies, and increase profits from world trade, then they could become richer!  (2).  \n\nGood luck!
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Not sure, But I know there are some countrys with the age as low as 9 years old.
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A developed country will have the major technological advancements, good roads, a stable government, stable communication devices, etc.\n\nA developing county is working to attain these things, but may not have reached them yet in some or all areas. These countries sometimes can be third world countries or once third world countries that are now better. Coutnries that have been stricken by war, disease, poverty, famine, natural disasters, etc. usually fall into this category.
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Good question. I would look that up and find stats if they have them. Mostly the babies are abandoned or killed after birth. Girls mostly. The orphanages are full over there and thousands are adopted by US families yearly.
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What over-population? Go up in a plane & there's vast stretches of un-utilitized resources down there to be put to use. I'm sure 100 years ago people thought the world was overpopulated too.
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Environmental degradation and massive overpopulation.
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wow...good question..the ones i hear of are mainly in africa and asia....places where there is no economy, education, health care...and the outlook on life is pretty dismal\nthese places are usually run by tribal chiefs at war with neighboring tribes or the gov't..
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I will assume you mean National Underdevelopment.\n\nUnderdevelopment is caused by a lack of investment (either public or private) into vital institutions such as infrastructure, education, public health, security, communications and defense.\n\nIf a nation is not able to provide services such as these to its population, then the nation cannot take part in commerce which means the people cannot begin to live beyond subsistence which means they cannot build a growing and stable society.
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First of all GDP isn't the best measure of development, look at the United Nations Development Programme Human Development report, and they use a Human Development Index.  According to that on the African continent (excluding the wealthier islands of Mauritius, Seychelles, Maldives and Cabo Verde) the most developed country in the continent are the arab countries of Libya and Tunisia, followed by Egypt, then South Africa and Equatorial Guinea.  These are the UNDP rankings.\n\nLooking behind the figures, I'd say that actually Tunisia is doing best in the whole of the African continent, far beyond South Africa (89the for Tunisia 120th for South Africa) SA has a high infant mortality and HIV/AIDS rate (21.5%!!!).  Highest HIV/AIDS rate is in Botswana a horrifying 37.3%.  Other countries in Southern Africa have high GDP including Botswana and even Zimbabwe, but the high HIV/AIDS rate affects all other development indicators so much that it pulls the country down in the human development report.  \n\nSo yes, South Africa is the richest and most developed in Sub-Saharan Africa, but they have a huge problem with HIV/AIDS.  Gabon is probably the richest simply because it's an oil exporter and has a very small population of about 2 million people.  Government there is notoriously bad, so it's not likely to develop much further any time soon.  Better government is usually found in countries with a larger population and regular elections like Ghana, Senegal, Mozambique, and even Nigeria now.  \n\nNow looking at Sub-Saharan Africa the situation is trickier, since the indicators don't give away which country has the best prospects to develop further.  Depending on how the AIDS crises develops there are two scenarios, either Southern Africa sinks in human development or AIDS is tackled (which can be done with the drugs already available) and it starts to grow.  Otherwise I have a feeling that countries like Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Ivory Coast, and the small countries like Gabon, Equatorial Guinea etc will lead the way.  Even Angola has a more limited AIDS rate of 3.9% and a relatively high GDP of 900$ so it can start growing much faster if proper government is in place.
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There are not thousands of poor, illiterate children in India. There are millions. India is a huge country full of poverty and injustice. There is no way to super-quick fix that place up. Just so you know, they are agricultrually self-sufficient. This means that India grows enough food so that everyone there can get enough to eat. The problem is that it gets held in these store houses and never gets to the people that are starving. The best way to help India is to invest money in companies that are working at building up its infrastructure. That's my opinion, anyway. If you give money to its government, that is really bad, because most people over there in government are really corrupt. If you want, do a little research on the socio-economic history of India. I learned a lot and am really excited about it.
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Yes, and other countries should follow their example.  There are already too many people on this planet and we need to take action on population growth.
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6.25 billion people!!!\n\n5.05 billion lives in undeveloped countries.