Why there are poor countries like in Africa and South America?Whose is the guilt?

Answer 1

This is not a text book answer but i learnt that such countries are poor due to some extent by the colonisation of the European mights in the past eg England, France, Spain, which exploited these countries for slave trade and exportation of local goods or "cash crops". Once this was abolished, the countries were left in ruins with little resources to go on and therefore spawned widespread poverty. This is also perpetuated by local governments themselves whereby out of either a need to find an immediate solution, corruption or mismanagement have continued to allow exploitation of their country

Answer 2

There is a vast difference between the income level of Africa and South America. South America has income levels like poor countries in Eastern Europe although there is variation from country. However the high degree of income inequality in South American results in more people living in severe poverty. South America has had relatively slow growth over the last few decades, and most economist believe it is due bad economic policies put in place by their governments. Africa's income levels are appalling with several countries averaging less than $300 per person per year. A few how ever are doing much better, but civil war, drought, very high population growth rates, and corruption have prevented any improvement in many. See link for GDP per person data to get some idea to the relative ranking of income between countries.
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/eco_gdp_ppp_percap-economy-gdp-ppp-per-capita&b_map=1

Answer 3

No one's and everyone's. Like all the countries they try to make their situation better, unlike all other countries they are far behind. Colonization and the subsequent political "turmoil", to put it mildly, drought, soil erosion, and Malaria and AIDS epidemics have made Africa into a continent in which just staying alive is in many places a challenge, and would be so for ANYONE. The road out of poverty is VERY slow and a century or two ago most of the people in even the richest nations scarcely lived better than the average African today (remember Oliver Twist's plea for more food; starvation was a genuine peril at the time).

The Africans are undertaking HEROIC efforts to improve their situation (they don't really have much of a choice; if they don't they risk in many places swift death), but the sad fact is that they will for at least this century remain at the tail-end of the global wealth distribution and that for at least the next few decades a good portion of Africans will continue to live in "extreme" poverty as opposed to "merely" the non-extreme kind, in which you are still dirt-poor but at least your survival on a day-to-day basis is not brought into question.

Answer 4

the guit is America's and Europe's and Japan's.

They all get rich, and make Africa look poor.
Arcia not poor, africans eat 500 more calories than 100 years ago, and live 5 years longer.

But america eat 1000 more calories, and live 20 years longer.

Evil America do not give their food and their doctors to Africa.

Answer 5

Rich economically developed countries that's who carry the guilt such as the uk and america .For example chopping down trees years ago for furniture and many foods as they aren't updated as the u.k's and north america's society in politics and money such as tax.plus now fair trade has came in hopefully this can put a stop to poverty in less economical sustained countries

Answer 6

I personally think it has to do with greed and government. And conflict. The fact that there's so much war and genocide in Africa.

Answer 7

their ministers of education