The+exploitation+of+Africa+by+industrialized+and+industrializing+countries

=The Exploitation of Natural Resources by Industrialized and Industrializing Countries= Africa is the second largest continent on this Earth with approximately 900 million people scattered over its 30 million square kilometers of land. This continent of 54 countries holds 99 percent of the world's chrome resources, 85 percent of its platinum, 70 percent of its tantalite, 68 percent of its cobalt, and 54 percent of its gold, as well as significant oil and gas reserves . As a result, it has become an hamper, holding an abundunce of various minerals and other natural resources, for nations to employ to their advantage in the goal of sustainable development. Though this flood of foreign direct investment and export revenue should primarily benefit African nations, it has on the contrary ,contributed to the collapse of its, as sta te corruption, environmental degradation, poverty, and violence developed. It is indeed t his range of natural resources that Africa generates who are the source of its turmoil, as both industrialized and industrializing nations take advantage of the fragile state of these nations' economies through exploitation in the forms of child labor, low payrolls, and serration of the African environment, as well as the avoidance tax payments to the governments of its nations and the infringement of agreements they have signed. Due to the increase of economic and military reliance, these African nations have thus entered an endless cycle of economic,socio-political and environmental of need and exchange with these foreign powers.



The research report for this topic is soon to be posted. Below is the bibliography of the report, as starting points for your research: http://www.un.org/issues/m-africa.html http://www.progress.org/2005/africa05.htm http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/741-China-s-environmental-footprint-in-Africa http://www.africaeconomicanalysis.org/articles/63/1/Rich-countries-and-their-leverage-on-Africa/Page1.html http://www.iveknownrivers.org/read-2.0.php?id=50 http://www.unesco.org/science/wcs/meetings/afr_arusha_99.htm http://www.unesco.org/science/wcs/meetings/afr_pretoria_99.htm http://www.unesco.org/science/wcs/meetings/afr_yaounde_99.htm http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/dmo/susdev/sci_tech.html http://www.weathervane.rff.org/featues/feature009.html http://www.unisdr.org/unisdr/ISDRInf%202.pdf http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1552921,00.html [|http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sidney_Okolo] http://www.un-ngls.org/documents/publications.en/voices.africa/number5/vfa5.04.htm http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/38846 http://www.heritage.org/research/asiaandthepacific/bg1916.cfm http://www.cfr.org/publication/9557/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7086777.stm http://www.southafrica.info/news/international/france-290208.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7489993.stm#plaut http://www.un.org/issues/m-africa.html http://www.unglobalcompact.org/HeaderMenu/search_global_compact.html?cx=017867615180777054248%3Arbjhpb8rvpy&cof=FORID%3A11&q=Africa#1285 http://www.nepad.org/2005/news/wmview.php?ArtCat=3

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