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Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
This report aims to distinguish some comparable differences in problems between Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. The report incorporates the findings of three articles on immigration, environmental concerns and family planning. The report aims to discuss how these areas of concern are being addressed and how they have been or may be solved. From there, the objective is to forecast some possible solutions for these serious long-term issues that are all too apparent throughout many of the African continent.
People are the true source of success. Therefore, when the best people in a country or region leave to find a better way of life abroad through education or other opportunities, they inadvertently have some effect on the country they left behind. "For example, the number of immigrants from Spanish-speaking Latin America increased by...
In contrast, the number of immigrants from Europe increased by less than 700,000 and those from Sub-Saharan Africa increased by about 400,000." (Camarota and McArdle) This seems to be more of dilemma in Africa than in Latin America because a great number of Latin immigration is to the United States where an immigrant can most likely find better sources of jobs and a better way of life. With that comes the ability to provide financial assistance to family's back home. Migration from Africa usually entails only the best and the brightest who make their way to universities around the world. These opportunities often do not lead to financial assistance back home. But more important, it also means that the newly educated person who may now be a doctor or lawyer will not return to his home country again affecting the overall success…
Getting the best and the brightest of nations to return home may be an impossible problem to solve. For example, if a new doctor from the Sub-Saharan African region stays in England or the United States because of the advantages seem greater than that same doctor working without facilities back home, there is more of a chance of his staying abroad. In Latin America, the rewards are greater because the nations of South America are better developed and therefore offer more of a reward to return home.
A major concern in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Latin American nations is family planning & sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV and Aids. "The ideal family size of about four children is lower in Rwanda than in most countries of sub-Saharan Africa. However, the annual rate of change observed between the periods of 0-3 and 4-7 years preceding the surveys (-4.2%) is clearly greater than those noted in the first phase of the fertility transition in Botswana, Kenya, and Zimbabwe."(Pillet) The use of contraceptives in Africa has declined as the use of contraceptives increases. The changes can be compared to Latin America in the 1970's. "In Asia and Latin America, the accelerated decline in fertility observed in a few countries in the 1950s and 1960s was repeated in most of the others in the 1970s." (Pillet)
The world will not be able to feed its entire population if the overall birthrate is not slowed. Unfortunately, those having the babies are often the poorest and least capable of providing adequate opportunities to house, cloth and feed their young. The efforts to slow the birthrate in Africa is a positive sign but that is not to say that the problem
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