Across Africa, however, projects are being launched that could revolutionise medical supply chains and commercial deliveries, combat poaching and provide other solutions for an overburdened, underdeveloped continent.
Although it has abundant natural resources, Africa remains the world's poorest and most underdeveloped continent.
Cooper discusses the impact of the slave trade on mortality rates of the enslaved (e.g. through the middle passage) along with the ways in which slavery and colonialism underdeveloped the continent of Africa while enriching the Spanish, Portuguese, Iberian peoples, the United States, England and France among others.
IBEC later expanded its activities into 33 other underdeveloped countries on 4 continents.
The continent's underdeveloped roads, railways and air and sea networks, he said, were hampering efforts to improve trade, investment and tourism.
We continue to be an underdeveloped and profoundly unequal continent where about one-third of Latin Americans live in poverty, according to the UN's economic commission for the region.The mission of the region's bicentennial generation must be to change history for the better.
"The workforce throughout the continent is significantly underdeveloped" says Erika Freund, director and owner of Mikuti, a jewelery and fashion brand which, for the last four years, has developed its supply chain in sub-Saharan Africa.
In Germany, as on most of the Continent, foundation aid is underdeveloped.
Asia is the most heavily populated continent, with some groups living in an underdeveloped environment.
Besides some successes, like Hakeem Olajuwon of Nigeria, who was drafted by the Houston Rockets in 1984, the continent has been an area of mostly untapped or underdeveloped talent in a soccer-first region.
