--%>
Assignment Help - homework help

Average standard of living in Africa

Elucidate briefly the average standard of living in Africa?

E

Expert

Verified

It is exceptionally low. Africa is the most impoverished continent on the planet. The average African has lack access to safe drinking water and most generally lacks plumbing. ‘Informal housing’ is the rule with electricity and secure transportation remaining luxuries. Even life style aspects taken for granted through the average Russian or Mexican are out of reach for many Africans. In employment, most of Africans are unemployed or employed in farming.

Sub Saharan Africa in particular is one the world's poorest area. According to the World Bank seventy four point nine percent of the population lived on less than two dollar a day in the year of 2003; forty four percent lived on less than one dollar a day.

   Related Questions in Microeconomics

  • Q : Definition if pure monopsonist Can

    Can someone please help me in finding out the accurate answer from the following question. The pure monopsonist: (1) Is the sole buyer of a specific good or resource in the given market. (2) Can adjust just quantity and therefore is a price-taker in input market. (3)

    		•
  • Q : Principle of equal marginal utilities

    The thought that, in equilibrium, the more you pay for the good, more it is worth (that is, at the margin) to you is most intimately associated to the: (1) Law of diminishing returns. (2) Equivalent satisfaction corollary. (3) Veblen effect. (4) Rising cost hypothesis

    		•
  • Q : Examples of Labor

    The contracts needing employment after some worker’s jobs have been made obsolete through automation are illustrations of: (i) Blacklisting. (ii) Labor-reducing protectionism. (iii) Check-off provisions. (iv) Yellow dog contracts. (v) Feather-bedding.

  • Q : Determine least price elasticity in

    Of all of the known ranges on such supply curves, the supply of tanks of dehydrated water is least price elastic in between: (i) point a and point b. (ii) point b and point c. (iii) point c and point d. (iv) point e and point f. (v) point g and point

    		•
  • Q : Relationship between APP-MPP If APP is

    If APP is at its maximum, then what is the relationship among MPP and APP? Answer: MPP = APP

    		•
  • Q : Indeterminable market supply curve For

    For a monopoly firm a market supply curve is: (w) steeper than the market supply curve of a competitive industry. (x) indeterminable because profit-maximizing quantities with profit maximizing prices are determined concurrently, and depend upon costs

    		•
  • Q : Define regressive in taxes as

    Line T2 depicts as in below graph a tax system which is: (i) progressive. (ii) recessive. (iii) proportional. (iv) biased. (v) regressive.

    Q : Ordinal utility In economics, what is

    In economics, what is ordinal utility and what are its assumptions

    		•
  • Q : Spending pattern in Substitution Effects

    I have a problem in economics on spending pattern in Substitution Effects. Please help me in the following question. Even when your real income were held steady by adjusting for price modifications, your spending pattern would react to modifications in relative prices

    		•
  • Q : Economic profits in long run A monopoly

    A monopoly will make economic profits within the short run: (w) but cannot create economic profits in the long run. (x) if average total costs [ATC] > P. (y) as long as total revenue exceeds total costs. (z) All of the above.

    		•