Is it possible for the poorest country in Africa to develope its technology like the successful Asian nations?
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It is possible but it would depend on their government and the people themselves to recognize what it is that would make their country develop. They have to recognize what their competitive advantage is and be open to change. I have a friend who works in a development project in Ethiopia to establish schools and Universities as well as introduce alternative crops that are more drought-resistant.\n\nOverall it won't be the external aid from other countries that would bring them out of their present state. Their government and the people have to make the effort to make their country better. Besides no one can tell them what they need. They have to figure that out themselves.
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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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To answer your question : technically speaking, it's a developING country; however I find it much more developed than many (theoretically) developed countries I've seen.\nA note for ku_lok : it's actually the other way round.\nA note for diehard : what makes you say that?????
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Parts of Africa are fantastic. Do I think they will be a world power by 2020? No way.
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Who knows? It has been done before.  There are quite a few such organizations that operate in several areas of conflict throughout Africa, Asia, and the Americas,  that do such work very effectively.
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If by Kneya, you mean Kenya, I would assume not, since its a third world country in africa. They have trouble finding three meals a day, theres no way they'd have a good educational system.
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Research fails in Nigeria and Africa for the following reasons:\n1.  Limited access to libraries, laboratories and IT facilities.\n2.  Limited funding for research and few research grants.\n3.  Lack of Infrastructure.\n4.  Lack of political will to support research.
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it depend on which country in africa,and africa is a countinent be clear my friend
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In my opinion, its because of there isn't much use of computer there. Most of them (native africans for example) are using traditional way of getting things done. Another case might be that there are not many ways to get a computer. Maybe because there are no electricity, no telephone cable connection, etc. \n\nHope this helps. This are merely opinions
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I'd say most developing countries: African countries and SouthAmerican countries (first) and then Eastern Europe countries.
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yes,why not ? \nall u mention are nations that have lot of people who have smart brain and guts.and money can easily find with that 2 resources.so the only matter just time and conscious to manage and channel their resource better .
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It is a fast developing nation,in all the sheres particularly in the Information technology sector.What else u want to know?
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Theoretically, I guess its possible.\nBut considering the fact fact that 4 of the 5 african nations are first-timers, the likelihood is quite low.\nBut I'm sure they'll do their best.
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Sounds great. Except we lack the technology, know-how, resources, funding, interest, et cetera. So, good luck with that.
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Hi, All african countries have cars and houses so that's the wrong way to put it.  Judged by Gross Domestic Product we have unusual answers.  Yes, first South Africa is far ahead, but the other four contenders are Botswana, Namibia, Tunisia and Gabon.  All these countries have different development strategies, and I'd say that Botswana and Gabon are not developed at all, they simply have natural resources and a small population.  Botswana has diamonds, and Gabon has oil, but Botswana has a nearly 40% AIDS rate, and Gabon has most of its country as undeveloped jungle, with nearly no industries.  \n\nMy answers would be \n1) South Africa: it's industrialised and now with the end of Apartheid many blacks have risen to economic success. \n2) Tunisia: they've managed to become a prime tourist destination and use the money for industrialisation, they've done it all without oil or diamonds.\n3) Namibia: Quite similar to South Africa, was in fact part of Apartheid South Africa until 1992, so again industry created by European settlers with the usual problems of bad distribution and exclusion of the native population. \n4) Marocco: Another tourist destination in Africa, but they have done not as well as Tunisia in terms of lifting the rest of the population out of poverty.  \n5) An unlikely answer, but Ivory Coast: They were essentially doing well before the war and are likely to bounce back after it, the prosperity was starting to cause ethnic tensions and that really brought the country down in 2002.\n\nI exclude places like Algeria where despite the oil boom, most people live in fear.  Libya is still a one-man rule, I'll wait and see on that case.  I'm not impressed by oil or diamonds when they can't help an AIDS crisis or create good housing for all, so places like Gabon don't figure high in my statistics.  \n\nOh, and some the islands of Africa (Cap verde, Seychells, Mauritius are doing relatively well, partly due to offshore financial centres, and tourism).  But offshore finance also gives a veil of secrecy for capital to escape out of the resource rich countries, therefore harming the countries like Nigeria which is oil rich.  So Mauritius bankers are actually causing poverty in rest of Africa... see below the link.
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As an African, I dont like the idea of getting funds from the west but since the western countries are taking all the children of the africa who have the brains to work for them leaving their home countries poor.  How can these countries develop yet we still get the so called investors who end up employing mainly their statemens in good positions yet with good pay, working conditions. And when we talk of good pay, these guys are paid in dollars, pounds, euros irrespective of the countries they are working in.. This money is sent back to their home countries... \n\nIts still these developed western countries who are designing and producing dangerous weapons which are in most cases being used by African dictators to kill innocent children, women. These very good learned western friends always have hidden agendas as you will find two different countries supporting say 1 supports the rebels with guns, medicine, education and the other supports the government.\n\nI have alot I could say but you  western countries need to visit care.org such that you can start supporting the africans,  healing the sick with AIDs, and many other problems caused by many of our brothers, sisters who have hidden agendas in conflicts in Africa and the World at large.
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Nope. The rich and poor countries are intertwined whether they like it or not. The rich need the poor to exploit and the poor need the rich in order to be exploited. There would not be one without the other.