Saving Africa and Building a Business
October 8th, 2007 | Published in Professional, Global-reach
If you haven’t seen it, this might be the best use of statistics to give a persuasive presentation I’ve ever seen: Hans Rosling on the democratization and analysis of world statistics on health and wealth.
This talk is good throughout, but what strikes me most is the inhomogeneity in homogeneity in each cluster of countries. By that, I really mean the spread in the economic strength among these groups, specifically the continent of Africa. Considered as a continent, Africa is in poverty, but contrary to the opinion of the average American, there is much wealth in Africa as well, and not just in the form of blood money for diamonds.
Wealth that comes from trade, that comes from countries exchanging on even parity in the global market with every other nation.
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