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All of These Least Developed Countries Have Been Plagued by Continued Conflict Except

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Introduction

Africa remains the most underdeveloped among the comity of continents across the world. It contains over 70% of the least developed countries (LDCs) in the world. Sadly, the African continent largely depends on aids, with most countries in Africa still running as mono-product economies, and a larger percentage affected by corruption, ethnoreligious conflicts, and civil wars (Akanji 2009; Omobowale 2015). To further indicate the criticality of this situation, out of the 47 countries that make up the global list of least developed countries, 33 of them are found on the African continent. All of Africa's 33 least developed countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa, indicating the precarious nature of the subcontinent as shown in Table 1below. Further, several reports that are based on empirical data suggest that inadequate access to basic livelihood needs, such as shelter, health, education, food, water, and transportation, compounds the precarious context of underdevelopment in...

Keywords

  • Least developed countries
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Economic growth
  • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • Trade
  • International organizations

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  1. Business Administration, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

    Bamidele A. Wale-Oshinowo

  2. Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

    Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale

  3. Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria

    Mercy M. Adeyeye

  4. Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

    Sorbarikor Lebura

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Correspondence to Bamidele A. Wale-Oshinowo .

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  2. Nemzetkozi Tanulmanyok Intezet, Rm 503, Corvinus Univ, Inst of Intl Studies, Budapest, Hungary

    Dr. Péter Marton

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Wale-Oshinowo, B.A., Omobowale, A.O., Adeyeye, M.M., Lebura, S. (2020). Least Developed Countries in Africa. In: Romaniuk, S., Marton, P. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74336-3_346-1

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