GGR329H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Millennium Development Goals, Jeffrey Sachs, Sub-Saharan Africa
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List four of the five (5) physical and historical circumstances which pinkovskiy and sala-i-martin argue had no impact on recent poverty reduction in africa. A variant of social darwinism: the appropriation of darwin"s theory of natural selection for use directly on human societies, usually for racist or imperialist apologia. Rugged terrain afforded protection during slave trades. Slave trades retarded subsequent economic development. Ruggedness has had a historical indirect positive effect on income in. Africa: *the growth from the period 1995-2006, far from benefiting only the elites, has been sufficiently widely spread that both total african inequality and african within-country inequality actually declined over this period. *the speed at which africa has reduced poverty since 1995 puts it on track to achieve the millennium development goal of halving poverty relative to 1990 by 2015 on time or, at worst, a couple of years late.
