eBooks

http://agriselana.smartagriot.co.za

http://agriafricamp.smartagriot.co.za

http://agrilab.smartagriot.co.za

• In 2016, over 64.4% of products exported by the least developed countries to world markets faced zero tariffs, an increase of 20% since 2010.
• Evidence from developing countries shows that children in the poorest 20 percent of the population are still up to three times more likely to die before their fifth birthday than children in the richest quintiles.
• Social protection has been significantly extended globally, yet persons with disabilities are up to five times more likely than average to incur catastrophic health expenditures.
• Despite overall declines in maternal mortality in most developing countries, women in rural areas are still up to three times more likely to die while giving birth than women living in urban centers.
• Up to 30 percent of income inequality is due to inequality within households, including between women and men. Women are also more likely than men to live below 50 percent of the median income

http://training.smartagriot.co.za

• Official development assistance stood at $146.6  billion in 2017. This represents a decrease of 0.6 percent in real terms over 2016.

• 79 percent of imports from developing countries enter developed countries duty-free

• The debt burden on developing countries remains stable at about 3 percent of export revenue

• The number of Internet users in Africa almost doubled in the past four years

• 30 percent of the world’s youth are digital natives, active online for at least five years

• But more four billion people do not use the Internet, and 90 percent of them are from the developing world
•