African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1066 Pressure and Governance

Maybe many Americans don't regard black people as human beings in their minds, but at least they really pay them wages. Based on this point, the living conditions of black people in the United States are the best among all black people in the world. As for Haiti and Liberia, two countries with a majority black population, although blacks have a higher political status, the economy is a mess. Except for the upper class of society, it is better to stay in the United States.

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Luo Song said: "my country's population is growing rapidly, benefiting from a relatively sound medical and health system, as well as the current development of various parts of Africa. Since the late 1990s, various diseases in East Africa have dropped significantly, which is particularly evident in humid and hot coastal areas. There is a significant difference between my country and West Africa."

There are many diseases in tropical regions. In fact, in the 20th century, there was not much difference between them and the temperate and subtropical zones. It was more obvious in high-altitude and cold areas like northern Europe.

Among tropical diseases, malaria is the most prominent. Malaria still exists in East Africa today, but with the development of East Africa, large-scale concentrated outbreaks will no longer occur. It can be said to be the lowest among countries at the same latitude, and even lower than some temperate countries.

"Secondly, with the development of industry and agriculture, the living standards of our people have improved significantly compared with the last century. The prices of agricultural products have remained low, and the per capita consumption of food, clothing and other types of industrial products has increased significantly."

Agriculture is the foundation for ensuring population growth in East Africa. The agricultural sector in East Africa is not only self-sufficient, but also can export in large quantities. Moreover, with the promotion of mechanization, the use of fertilizers in agriculture, the planning and development of agriculture according to local conditions, the improvement of variety cultivation technology and other reasons, East African agriculture has not only achieved a leap in quantity, but also quickly caught up with European and American countries in quality.

Today, East Africa is considered one of the world's agricultural powers and is in the same first echelon as Germany. Germany's strengths in agricultural development are mainly reflected in fertilizer and pesticide technology, while East Africa is at the forefront of the world in mechanization. Countries such as the United States are relatively balanced in all aspects, but do not have such eye-catching highlights as East Africa and Germany.

"At the same time, the national population growth rate has formed various differences due to different levels of education and ideological concepts. For example, the population growth rate in urban areas is slightly weaker than that in rural areas. The popularization of compulsory education across the country has also made the fertility rate of the new generation lower than that of the old generation. Although this difference is not obvious at present, it can also reflect some changes in my country's population to a certain extent."

In general, the level of education does have an impact on the population growth rate. For example, the older generation in East Africa does not think much due to their low education level, so they tend to carry out breeding business according to traditional models. This is especially true for the Far East immigrant group. Because of East Africa's intermarriage policy, the national population of East Africa has exploded in the 70s and 80s, laying a solid foundation for East Africa to become a populous country in the world.

"At present, my country has fully popularized compulsory education, and higher education has also made great progress. The quality of the people has improved significantly, which has paved the way for my country to build a world industrial power. The quality of compulsory education has been significantly improved, a complete talent training system has been established, normal schools have been widely built, and the average teaching level of the teacher group has been improved, which has significantly narrowed the gap between the average teaching level of compulsory education in my country and that of countries such as Germany."

In the past, due to factors such as talent, funding and productivity, the level of compulsory education schools in East Africa was obviously inadequate, and it was a typical "poor education", especially compared with European countries such as Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which implemented compulsory education relatively early.

As for other countries without compulsory education, the average school management level is much higher than that of East Africa. Take Russia for example. Although most people in Russia do not even have the opportunity to go to school, most of those who can go to school in Russia are the social elites of the country, and Russian education is also a typical elite route. Therefore, it is normal that the level of education in Russia is much higher than that in East Africa.

But this does not mean that Russian education is better than East African education. After all, the number of educated people in Russia is limited, and East Africa is also an elite country in terms of higher education. This makes East African higher education not only large in quantity, but also of quality that is not inferior to that of European and American countries. The fundamental reason for this result is that more talents can be screened out during the compulsory education stage in East Africa.

Luo Song went on to say: "The vigorous development of education has also played a role in feeding back to the development of scientific research, industry and agriculture in my country. It has trained a large number of scientific researchers and more knowledgeable technical workers and farmers for our country, and at the same time promoted the development of education, medical and other industries."

With the development of industrialization, East Africa has a greater demand for talents, and along with industrialization comes the specialization of the agricultural field, such as machinery operation, pesticide and fertilizer use, scientific management, etc., which require new farmers to master the corresponding knowledge. "In short, my country's population has not only achieved a breakthrough in quantity, but also in quality. As the population exceeds 100 million, the education level of the new population has also improved significantly."

Not only is East Africa one of the most populous countries in the world in terms of population size, but the quality of its population is also relatively excellent among countries in the world, which is obviously beneficial to the further development of East Africa.

Ernst said: "The expansion of population size and the improvement of national quality have laid a solid foundation for our country's further development, but we will also face some problems, including the guidance of public opinion and ideology, social order and public security, and the bearing capacity of urban development."

As the saying goes, if the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds! The increase in the population of East Africa has also increased the difficulty of management for the East African government. Ernst puts ideology first, naturally to prevent "Russian" ideology from entering East Africa. Now is an active period for social movements in Russia and Europe and the United States. After all, there have been two large-scale economic crises in these years, which has also provided soil for social movements in Europe and the United States.

Especially for Russia, which first encountered an economic crisis and then suffered a disastrous defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian social movement had actually become a big trend at this time. Otherwise, it would not have been able to overthrow the Tsarist government in the previous World War I. After all, the premise of overwhelming support is a deep mass base, which requires a strict and large-scale social organization.

The previous Russian coup took place in 1917, and now it is 1909, so the past few years should be a period of high incidence of social movements in Russia.

In terms of social security, the East African governments are not too worried. As countries with big government and planned economic systems, the East African governments are relatively good at governing society.

As for the urban carrying capacity, it is nothing more than a problem of resources such as housing, transportation, education, and medical care. With the growth of East Africa's population and the advancement of industrialization, a large number of people have poured into cities, and urban resources have become increasingly tight. This requires the East African government to re-plan the city and further implement public resources such as medical care, education, and transportation.

Of course, it is not just cities that are the main force behind the growth of the rural population. However, the current urbanization rate in East Africa is less than 30%, and cities cannot accommodate the excess population for the time being.

Therefore, it is also necessary to provide more abundant public resources such as medical care and education to the population in rural areas.

Although in the past two decades, East Africa has tilted most policies and resources towards cities due to the need to develop industry, this does not mean that rural areas should be neglected, at least not too much, so improving necessary medical care and education is naturally necessary.

Of course, as the urbanization level in East Africa will further increase in the future, East Africa should also be cautious about investing in public resources in rural areas. After all, it is obvious to the naked eye that the population in East Africa will increasingly concentrate in cities in the future. In this case, excessive investment in rural areas may cause certain waste.

Of course, the East African governments cannot throw the baby out with the bathwater. They just need to devote more energy to sorting out the development potential, population and economic conditions of rural areas, so as to allocate social resources more reasonably.

(End of this chapter)