Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

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 seven million and those from East Asia rose by over two million. 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 of the nation.

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.