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Dear visitor and international investor,
If this is your first visit
to AFRICABIZ ONLINE Monthly Issue - The
ultimate newsletter on trading and investing in 48 sub-Saharan African countries
- we warmly welcome you.
If you are a regular and faithful reader, welcome
back.
PER
CAPITA GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT (GNP) VERSUS PARITY PURCHASING
POWER (PPP)
Per capita GNP represents the total market value
of all the goods and services produced by a nation during a specified period divided
by the number of inhabitants.
PPP is based on a theory, which states
the exchange rate between two currencies adjusts - over a long term - to relative
price levels (to purchasing the same category of goods or services existing in
different countries). Briefly stated, one dollar buys more quantity of services
or goods in a developing country than in a developed one .
The result
is PPP valuation exceeds per Capita GNP when applied to developing countries.
Is that correct? Is it true that a developing country citizen can enjoy the same
living standard as the citizen of a developed country? Click
here to read more about the matter
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Contributor's Guidelines are
here to review. Your contribution on "How African countries / entrepreneurs
could bridge the developing gap" is welcome.
Many thanks for dropping by and see
you here on April 15, 2004.
Dr. B.M. Quenum
Editor
of AFRICABIZ
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Several business opportunities - component parts of the Integrated Developing Scheme described in Africans, Stop Being Poor! are listed in following table.
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SHEA BUTTER ( 5, 6,
7, 11,
12, 13)
b- BLUE GOLD ( 14, 15,
16, 17,
18, 19)
c- FREEZE-DRIED PAPAIN ( 20,
21, 22
and here)
d- KENAF
( 23, 24)
e- VEGETABLE OIL ( 25,
26, 27,
28)
f- CEREALS (
30, 31,
32, 33)
g- FRUITS (34,
35, 36,
37, 38,
39, 40,
42, 43,
44, 45,
46)
h- ESSENTIAL OILS
(47, 48,
49, 50,
51, 52)
i- ROOTS & TUBERS 54,
55, 56,
57, 58)
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TROPICAL ROOTS AND TUBERS: (VI) - COMPONENTS
TO THE STRATEGIC INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT SCHEME
Cassava,
potato, and sweet potato rank among
the top 10 food crops produced in developing countries. Sub-Saharan Africa
- SSA - is expected to experience the fastest growth in food demand for all
roots and tubers, largely driven by rapid population's growth. SSA share in
the total demand for developing countries will be 53 percent, with cassava accounting
for two-thirds of the increase.
On
the online monthly page of AFRICABIZ are listed four processed cassava's
products, which highlight the fact that cassava could be an important components
- an Economic Catalyst - to the Integrated Economic Development Scheme
Briefs on the preparation of fresh cassava prior to the production of chips and
pellets are reported here. Operating
conditions to producing cassava
ships on a small-scale basis are posted here. Last issue dealt with Investment
briefs to producing cassava floor with small-scale industrial units. Each
unit can create 60 jobs. That means 60,000 jobs if 1,000 units are installed.
That is a lot for rural areas in a developing country.
We invite you
to review above links. They demonstrate that Roots and Tubers are "economic
catalysts" components to the Integrated Developing Scheme. The developing
scheme is labeled "integrated" because it blends harmoniously Agriculture,
Industries and Services. It is represented on figure below and exposed in the
article titled: Strategy For African
Countries
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IMPACT FACTOR |
Fertilizers
Manures | 
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Oil
Meals | |
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Animal
Breeding | 
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Schools | |
Crops
Processing | |
Edible
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Industrial
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Plantations
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Chemical
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Mechanical
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Institutes | |
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Agro-Allied
Foods Industries | |
Power
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Irrigation
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© 2004 Dr. Bienvenu-Magloire Quenum. All rights reserved
The arrows
on above figure schematizes the interactivity (Synergetic Impact Factor)
between the several components of the Integrated Developing Scheme. The more and
longer there is interactivity between the component parts of the Integrated Sheme
(or the more powerful and longer the action of the Synergetic Impact Factor) the
stronger the Catch Up Factor that helps the scheme generating double-digit
economic growth rates over longer periods.
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