{"id":4242,"date":"2003-07-14T11:26:30","date_gmt":"2003-07-14T11:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2003-07-14T11:26:30","modified_gmt":"2003-07-14T11:26:30","slug":"aid-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4242","title":{"rendered":"aid to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I<\/p>\n<p>believe in <a href=\"leftthread.htm#abcd\">asset-based development<\/a>, which means<\/p>\n<p>that I am loath to itemize deficits and problems without putting at least as much<\/p>\n<p>emphasis on the <i>assets <\/i>that any human community or nation possesses as<\/p>\n<p>the basis for its own development. I am certain that Africa has tremendous assets:<\/p>\n<p>cultural, social, and natural. Unfortunately, I lack the detailed knowledge necessary<\/p>\n<p>to list the main ones. In lieu of an asset inventory, we ought to pay attention<\/p>\n<p>to the following gaps or problems on the occasion of <b>President Bush&#8217;s African<\/b><\/p>\n<p>tour:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>life expectancy at birth: Sierra Leone = 34.5 years; USA = 77.1\n<p>years<\/li>\n<li>adult literacy rate: Niger = 16.5%; Estonia = 98.8%<\/li>\n<li>population\n<p>earning less than $1\/day: Ethiopia = 81.9%; USA = 0% (reported) <\/li>\n<li>probability\n<p>at birth of not surviving to age 40: Mozambique, 56%; Japan = 7.5%<\/li>\n<li>population\n<p>without access to improved water source: Ethiopia, 76%; USA = 0%<\/li>\n<li>physicians\/100,000\n<p>people: Mali = 1; Italy = 567<\/li>\n<li>health spending\/capita: Guinea-Bissau =\n<p>$12; USA = $4,499<\/li>\n<li>undernourished people: Burundi = 69% of population;\n<p>USA = 0% (reported)<\/li>\n<li>percent of adults with HIV\/AIDS: Zambia = 21.52%;\n<p>USA 0.16%<\/li>\n<li>official development aid received, per capita: Dem. Rep. of\n<p>Congo = $5; Israel = $172.4 (The new European Union members get more aid than<\/p>\n<p>Israel, but their assistance comes with club membership in the EU.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All<\/p>\n<p>these statistics come from the &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/65.109.106.110\/hdr2003\/pdf\/hdr03_HDI.pdf\">Human<\/p>\n<p>Development Indicators<\/a>&quot; section of the United Nations Development Programme&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p><i>Human Development Report 2003<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe in asset-based development, which means that I am loath to itemize deficits and problems without putting at least as much emphasis on the assets that any human community or nation possesses as the basis for its own development. I am certain that Africa has tremendous assets: cultural, social, and natural. Unfortunately, I lack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}