How are Africa's problems of poverty, hunger, debt and environmental deterioration inter-related?
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How are Africa's problems of poverty, hunger, debt and environmental deterioration inter-related? Poverty, hunger, Third World debt and environmental deterioration are four factors that are regarded by the international community as being intrinsically linked with Africa, more specifically sub-Saharan Africa1. For years, the world community were either ignorant to or unaware of the plight of the African population, until such events as Band Aid (I & II) and recently Jubilee 2000 / Net Aid brought the situation to the forefront of public attention. Africa has since become very closely associated in public mind with the crisis of development, noted in a report for the Africa Review Group as "a crisis of government and people seemingly trapped in poverty and debt and in danger of being left behind as other nations become richer and stronger"2. Years of economic crisis have produced disaster with reference to the exports and balance of payments of...

