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I'm just briefly going to explain just one of the ways that the EU and the US help make Africa poorer and put many out of jobs.

Basically, (I'm simplifying this somewhat to make it easily understandable), in Europe and America the government massively subsidises the production of foods and other agricultural commodities. An example of this was the mark 1 common agricultural policy that worked on a "paid to produce" scheme; as a result huge surpluses were produced!

As a result supply is much greater than demand, and so they have large amounts of products spare, so they then "dump" these on the African market, selling them at a below production cost price, and so undercut the African farmers. This obviously means that the African farmers cannot compete with these low cost products and therefore are forced out of their business and forced further into poverty! This along with MNC grain companies taking over the local farm markets in Africa, effectively taking the money out of Africa into the MEDC's makes this even harder on the poor farmers and so Africa, all helping to slow down it industrialisation.

So next time you hear about how the EU is generously selling food for low prices to Africa, take another closer look, see how it affects the farmers over there who are getting put out of work, and how at the same time, the EU is gaining by getting rid of unwanted food! Always remember there are deeper economic knock on affects to what seem simple events!

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