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Trending 10 African currencies with the highest exchange rates against the dollar in Unsurprisingly, the countries on our list are also countries hit hard by other factors, including disease, war and conflict, climate change, and extreme weather patterns like drought. These often become compounding factors that keep communities trapped in cycles of poverty.
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Data are often hard to come by in some of the most vulnerable countries. Even if we find a unifying metric, how do we account for exchange rates? Given the variables at play, however, these lists are all slightly different from one another.
This ranks countries not only by their GNI, but also by the life expectancy at birth, expected years of schooling, mean years of schooling, and their own human development index HDI value. However, the country is still recovering from a year civil war that began when it gained independence from Portugal in and ended in Concern previously worked in Mozambique between and , and returned to the country in following the landfall of two major cyclones in the country including Cyclone Ida i.
This emergency response has now moved into an early-recovery phase, as we equip subsistence farmers with seeds and other agricultural inputs to help them replace crops destroyed by flooding. Liberia was also hit hard by the West African Ebola epidemic of , which infected 10, Liberians and killed 4, While education is expected to last 10 years, most Liberians only complete 4. The needs are enormous, and Concern has been active in Liberia for 23 years working to offset the effects of poverty.
This includes helping with clean water initiatives to support the Ongoing war and conflict mean that the mean years of schooling in the country is just 2. Bordered by both Mali 8 and Niger 1 , Burkina Faso is another former French colony that has suffered conflict and coups following its independence in Drought has also plagued the country, resulting in a mean 1. The country has a life expectancy of While the Ebola outbreak has passed and the economy has rebounded in part due to the resumption of iron ore mining, the outlook is still challenging.
The Republic of Burundi has been in conflict consistently since gaining independence from Belgium in Most children only complete 3 years of schooling, against an expected education of Our current focus is programs around health, nutrition, and livelihoods. Additionally, we place a high priority on maternal and child health in Burundi.
With deaths per , live births, the country is one of the most dangerous places in the world to have a child. Most children receive a mean of 2. We are responding to the humanitarian needs of displaced populations in the Lake Chad area, implementing health and nutrition programmes to deliver life-saving assistance. Our work in the Sila region of eastern Chad focuses on building community resilience to counter potential disasters. The Republic of South Sudan gained independence in July , but has experienced a long history of conflict, displacement, and deepening humanitarian needs.
While mean years of schooling are comparable to expected years 4. In response to the growing needs, we provide emergency, resilience and long-term development programming. Since early , ethnic and sectarian fighting in CAR has developed from a silent emergency into a complex humanitarian crisis. Conflict has severely affected the livelihoods and living conditions of over half of the 4.
World Bank data from estimate Concern has worked in Niger for 16 years, helping communities face several daunting development challenges, which are exacerbated by terrorist incursions, migration, climate change, and excessive population growth.
Poverty manifests in Niger through high levels of food insecurity, illnesses including endemic malaria, and poor access to services including water and sanitation. Crises around agriculture have compounded into hunger and nutrition issues and have affected much of the Nigerien population in the last 20 years, jeopardizing the lives of millions of people.
This has led to three major crises in the last 10 years. We launched our Integrated Resilience program in with 12 villages and 1, families. In , we expanded to 17 more villages and now work with over 2, families to increase access to quality health care services and education, improve food security and nutrition, foster gender equality, and enhance livelihood systems and environmental protection - some of the main causes of global poverty.
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Overall, while today the poorest countries still have extremely low standards of living, the economic potential is there for future growth. The Port of Los Angeles is the busiest port in America.
As of November 2, , the Port of Los Angeles reported that it had 93 vessels waiting in queue. Altogether, these ships have a maximum carrying capacity of roughly , containers commonly measured in twenty-foot equivalent units or TEUs. On the other side of the equation, the port processed , import containers in September the most recent data at the time of writing. Because the port does not operate on Sundays, we can conclude that the port can load roughly 18, containers each day.
That capacity seems unlikely to reduce the congestion. Over a two-week timeframe in September, , containers arrived at the Port of Los Angeles, which averages to around 29, containers arriving each day. Solutions are needed to prevent the backlog from causing massive economic harm.
The port also announced it will begin charging carriers for every container that sits idle over a grace period. While only temporary, this plan has drawn criticism for its unclear objective. Having the ocean carrier pay more does nothing to encourage the cargo interest to pick up the cargo.
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