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**limpoporanique** · 03-08-2010, 10:11 PM

The main problem in Africa is poor governance and lack of free market economic principles to generate growth higher then the birth rate.

As for your idea of using volunteers to create real lasting economic development... The closest thing anyone has ever tried to do that is Mao's Great Leap Forward which utilized hundreds of millions of people for over a decade doing the kind of volunteer work you want and the Great Leap Forward is universally accepted to have been a total failure even by the Chinese Communist Party.

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limpoporanique Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 483 Senior Member	The main problem in Africa is poor governance and lack of free market economic principles to generate growth higher then the birth rate. As for your idea of using volunteers to create real lasting economic development... The closest thing anyone has ever tried to do that is Mao's Great Leap Forward which utilized hundreds of millions of people for over a decade doing the kind of volunteer work you want and the Great Leap Forward is universally accepted to have been a total failure even by the Chinese Communist Party.
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