In the CNN article “Top 10: Africa's most prosperous countries”, it shows
38 African countries ranked on criteria about economics to education. It shows
whether the countries’ economics, education, health, etc. are increasing or
decreasing. Botswana was Africa's most
prosperous country. They fared very well in terms of governance, education, and
personal freedom. Also they had a GDP of $15,176. According to the World Bank
Botswana is the biggest proportional spender in the world. On the contrary,
Central African Republic was the lowest due to its per capita of $584. Only 21%
of the population has the approach to sanitation.
Even
though Rwanda wasn’t Africa’s most prosperous country, it was Africa's biggest gainer.
Statistics show that 41% of women are out of work compared to 23% of men. The
women plan on actively playing a role in shaping the future of their country. Similar to Rwanda, Kenya was up there in
biggest gainers. Over 44% of Kenyans thought it was now the right time to find
employment pushing them up in the rank.
Tanzania is falling down in rank. From 2012
they fell down 8 places. They have a lack of confidence in financial standards
and a decline in living standards. Also, they are falling down due to poor
education. They need to focus more on the quality of schools rather than the enrollment
rates. Tanzanians are not graduating well enough with the skills to work.
This leads to lack of adequately skills leading to lesser chance of employment.
Malawi was the biggest fall dropping 11 places. This is due their drop of their
GDP growth rate.
Overall, all African countries look like they
are on the right path to grow as a country. They are trying to improve to
hopefully make a better economy and become more prosperous. Once each country
has increased in their economics, health, and education this can lead to a lot
more Africans with more jobs. This overall leads to more money making the country a lot more prosperous.
I find it unbelievable that a country is capable to function when they only make 584 dollars per capita. Also, with 41% of women being unemployed is unmanageable. No matter how much the men were to work or how much they made a country cannot thrive when nearly half of their women don't even work. Africa may be growing in some ways but at the same time they are still very far behind.
ReplyDeleteIt blows my mind that Tanzania and its inhabitants are falling down the ranks due to poor education. How can one focus on the enrollment rate of a school yet ignore the quality of the schooling? They should be more worried about the number of kids graduating and reaching higher levels of education. These are the kids that are going to make a difference in the future of their home country. They should be having teachers in the classrooms that are worried about the student's education rather than how many students they can bring in to the school. School is of no use to anyone if you aren't learning the proper skills needed to maintain yourself as a civil human being. Jobs require a certain set of skills varying from job to job. The only way to make a country more prosperous is by making education a staple in the culture and make more jobs for people to improve the overall problems of the country.
ReplyDeleteI agree! In order for the African countries to become more prosper they need to increase their employment rate. In order to increase their employment rate they need to focus on the children's education. They should start worrying about the skills they are teaching rather then their enrollment rate. Whether they have 10 or 30 students, each individual needs to be able to graduate with the knowledge of being able to work. Also, the women's employment rate needs to increase in order for Africa to grow as a country. Having only 41% of women working is defiantly unnameable and needs to change.
ReplyDeleteThis can relate back to the article I wrote about too. My article basically said that children coming out of school are not able to find work because the lack of skills they're learning in school. Sometimes schools are teaching their kids things that will not necessarily improve them in the long run. Schools should start focusing on more important things that can improve everything and everyone!
ReplyDeleteThe schools are defiantly the reason Africa's unemployment rates are so low. When will the government realize it? When will they fix the schools up in or to increase their unemployment rate?
DeleteI feel like the government should start paying attention to the unemployed sooner than later. Africans are not only seeking for jobs, but for help too. They are already starting to act on this issue, such as organizations, protests, and making signs. Soon enough these peaceful protests will start to become less and less peaceful as long as the government keeps ignoring those in need.
DeleteThe government most definitely needs to start taking action! They're the ones who have the most power but are doing the least about it. The people of Africa seem to be putting in majority of the work and it shouldn't be that way. Matter of fact, it should be the other way around. The government are the ones who control the country, so they should start acting like it and begin paying attention now because matters are only going to get worse in the future.
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