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In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
Nancy Gibbs / Essayist
Fewer
Secondary School
Sub Saharan Africa
Africa
Secondary
Sub-Saharan
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
Bono / Singer
Home
People
Poorest
Sub Saharan Africa
World
Africa
Home World People
Million
Sub-Saharan
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Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastructure.
Norman Borlaug / Agricultural Scientist
Infrastructure
African
Sub-Saharan
Supplying
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In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.
Andrew Mitchell / British Politician
Poor People
Sub Saharan Africa
People Poor More
Africa
Sub-Saharan
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August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.
Henry Rollins / Musician
August
Endurance
Los Angeles
Sanity
Stamina
Tests
Angeles
Los
Sub-Saharan
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One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.
Robert Zoellick /
Challenges
Important
Integration
Modest
Size
Sub Saharan Africa
Africa
Markets
Regional
Sub-Saharan
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George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief.
Hillary Clinton / Former United States Secretary Of State
Aids
Program
Relief
Sub Saharan Africa
Africa
Bush
Emergency
George
George W
George W. Bush
Popular
Sub-Saharan
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One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Chaotic
Interesting
African
Dynamic
Interesting People
Million
Nigerian
Sub-Saharan
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
J. Philippe Rushton / Professor
Britain
Canada
Caribbean
Lows
Relative
Sub Saharan Africa
United States
Africa
Blacks
Iq
Low
Scores
Sub-Saharan
Whites
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Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.
Rose George / Journalist
Filled
Sub Saharan Africa
Africa
Beds
Diseases
Hospital
Sub-Saharan
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There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.
Hans Rosling / Professor
Afghanistan
Burma
Extreme Poverty
Pakistan
Scary
Severe
Sub Saharan Africa
Extreme
Africa
Rural
Sub-Saharan
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At its height, Rome's empire stretched right along the coast of north Africa and sub-Saharan Africans passed to and fro across its porous southern border.
David Olusoga /
Height
North Africa
Rome
Southern
Across
Africa
African
Border
Empire
North
Passed
Stretched
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In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.
Claudio Hummes /
Aids
Died
Hiv
Majority
Sub Saharan Africa
Viruses
Africa
Infected
Sub-Saharan
Virus
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In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale - HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.
Uzodinma Iweala /
Etc
Malaria
Medicine
Public Health
Relate
Sub Saharan Africa
Africa
Scale
Broad
Generally
Terms
Sub-Saharan
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By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita income in China that year was one third of sub-Saharan Africa's.
Evan Osnos / Journalist
Average
Chinese
Income
Chinese People
Poorer
Sub-Saharan
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People try not to think about what's going on in sub-Saharan Africa. They edit it out of their daily lives. Especially Americans. We prefer a fantasy version of Africa.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Sub Saharan Africa
Version
Daily Lives
Edit
Sub-Saharan
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I want to go back to the Pantanal in Brazil. I've never been to sub-Saharan Africa. I'd like to take my Caravan over there and do a flying safari. I've never flown to Alaska.
Harrison Ford / Film Actor
Alaska
Brazil
Flying
Sub Saharan Africa
Africa
Never Back Go
Caravan
Flown
Sub-Saharan
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Floods will become more serious and frequent in the Indo-Gangetic plains. Drought induced food and water scarcity will become more acute. South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the small islands will be the worst victims.
M. S. Swaminathan /
Asia
Drought
Islands
Scarcity
Serious
South
South Asia
Sub Saharan Africa
Water
Worst
Food Water Will
Acute
Africa
Floods
Frequent
Induced
Plains
Sub-Saharan
Victims
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I'm interested in helping people obtain the benefits enjoyed by the First World of efficient government. I want people in sub-Saharan Africa and other extremely impoverished parts of the world to acquire those same opportunities.
Mark Getty / Businessman
Government
Acquire
Benefits
Efficient
Enjoyed
Helping
Helping People
Sub Saharan Africa
Government World People
Africa
Interested
Extremely
First World
Impoverished
Obtain
Opportunities
Parts
Sub-Saharan
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In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.
Melinda Gates / Businesswoman
Men
Agendas
Developing
Farmers
Focused
Instance
Past
Sub Saharan Africa
Time Men Women
Women Are
Africa
Agenda
Developing World
Time Women Men
In The Past
Programs
Sub-Saharan
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Exporting firms are more productive and pay higher wages than their domestically focused counterparts, especially in places like Sub-Saharan Africa. If firms manage to thrive in world markets, they tend to increase their productivity even more.
Arancha Gonzalez /
Counterparts
Exporting
Manage
Productivity
Sub Saharan Africa
Thrive
Wages
Sub-Saharan
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I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.
Donald Evans /
Morning
Administration
Development
Economic Development
Focused
Ghana
Needs
North Africa
Sub Saharan Africa
Tomorrow
Africa
North
Promote
Sub-Saharan
This Administration
Throughout
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Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.
Alcee Hastings / U.s. Representative
Hunger
Infant
Infant Mortality
Malnutrition
Mortality
Public Education
Rate
Rivals
Sub Saharan Africa
Western
Yesterday
Die
Africa
Almost
Below
Nation
Public
Parts
Ranks
Sub-Saharan
System
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I'm the founder and CEO of Sama Group, a family of social enterprises - Samasource, Samahope and SamaUSA - that are working to alleviate poverty by connecting the global community to opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean and here in the U.S.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Alleviate
Asia
Caribbean
Ceo
Connecting
South Asia
Sub Saharan Africa
Enterprises
Founder
Sub-Saharan
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No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East except Israel and Jordan and most of the oil-rich states, and the entire former British Indian Empire were better governed by Europeans.
Conrad Black / Life Peer
British
East
Former
Indian
Jordan
Middle East
Morocco
North Africa
Sub Saharan Africa
Africa
Almost All
Dispute
Empire
Europeans
Governed
Sub-Saharan
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When I was filming 'Prudence' in Zimbabwe, I noticed the hold fundamentalist Christianity had on sub-Saharan Africa. So I thought I'd like to make a film about religion in Africa because the prosperity gospel is big business where people are desperate, poor, and sick.
Roger Ross Williams / Television Director
Big Business
Christianity
Desperate
Fundamentalist
Prudence
Sick
Sub Saharan Africa
Zimbabwe
Africa
Gospel
Filming
Noticed
Sub-Saharan
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I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.
Annie Lennox / Singer-Songwriter
Arms
Bird
Flu
Hiv
Newspapers
Pages
People
Percent
Sub Saharan Africa
Swine
Africa
Cover
Infected
Sub-Saharan
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The World Health Organization did a world health report in 2006. In the whole world about 60 countries are in dire situation in terms of having enough doctors. And many of these countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa. You know, that part of the world alone needs one million doctors.
Margaret Chan / Md
Doctors
Organization
Sub Saharan Africa
Africa
Report
Dire
Sub-Saharan
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If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries.
Helen Clark / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Concentration
Country
Fragile
Harder
May
Neglect
People
Poor Countries
Stable
Unstable
Money People Poor
Currently
Tremendous
Donor
Plain
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Right after undergrad, I started doing low-level work on health issues in sub-Saharan Africa, and what struck me was the disconnect between how people in New York would speak about some of the issues people were facing. At the time, 2006-ish, there were a number of big media campaigns to raise awareness about HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.
Uzodinma Iweala /
New York
Health
Campaigns
Hiv
Low Level
Media
Speak
Sub Saharan Africa
Time Work Me
Time Work Health
Africa
Disconnect
Facing
Number
Work Health Time
Raise
Struck
Sub-Saharan
York
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