New haven america wrote:Byzconia wrote:It's didn't say they didn't have resources, I said they were deprived of them. Their resources are largely controlled by the US, EU, and China through neocolonialist trade policies, making it virtually impossible for their governments to effectively manage them, corrupt or not (though, the massive amounts of corruption that do exist aren't exactly helping).
Oh look, a massive overgeneralization appeared. TBH, a lot of the most resource rich countries in the world are located in Africa: the Congos, South Sudan and Uganda, Botswana, etc...
The main problem isn't foreign intervention/control (Though that is an issue), it's the environment and infrastructure. DRC Congo is one of the top 10 of most metal rich countries in the world, but they can barely any of it due to the Congo Rainforest (Which means no one can get to these massive metal and mineral deposits), meanwhile, Uganda and South Sudan lack the funding and roads/vehicles to extract their oil (Sudan removed all of their equipment when South Sudan became independent). There are some countries that are able to get their resources though: Botswana's doing very well with its diamonds and /scientific/regular tourism to the world's largest inland river delta, while Angola has oil it's able to tap into.
And I've already mentioned infrastructure in a previous post. Also, we're not talking about Africa, but the Third World in-general. Regardless, this is all irrelevant to this thread, so this is the last post I'll make on the subject.
So much anger.