i have visited south africa, moroco, tunisia and egypt and those countries look pretty good, but i agree the rest is just... no word to describe how f#@!# up things are going on in those countries.
If they are run like a prison economy, how many nick names for "Bubba" do they have? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_p9AbWQ2wc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=077UtUWGQOA&feature=related
they will probably blame past exploits of colonalism for this again. i always thought why then do asian countries who had endured similar treatments are doing so well now relative to african countries.
Gabon, Botswana and Namibia. Although Botswana has a high percentage of HIV cases amongst its populace.
Does anyone know why when massive inflation like this occurs a Country does not just resort to some sort of Barter system? To me it seems absolutely insane that this country still has all the resources and labour potential it had before but because the "money" is hyper-inflating they decide to starve. It would not be that hard to set up some rudimentary barter currency to use in a community sense. There are even precedence for this like in Alberta during the Great Depression they ended up resorting to that same type of tactic and it did work. The party that started up this system the SoCreds continued in office for another 40 years so it must have been fairly successful.