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There are many reasons for this poor connectivity including: electricity (see Figure 5 4 for the light at night for the world and compare Africa with the rest of the world), import tariffs(see figure 5), skills (see Figure 7 6 for a cartogram (where territories are re-sized according to the subject of interest - all cartograms shown here are from http://www.worldmapper.org/) of tertiary education spending growth), disease (Figure 87), protectionist policies, corruption (see Figure 98), conflict (see Figure 109).
Figure 54: World light at night | Figure 65: World Tariff Profiles | Figure 76: |
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Figure 87: HIV Prevalence | Figure 98: Corruption Perception Index | Figure 109: |
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Another way of looking at the poor situation in Africa is to look at Figure 11, illustrating the lack of Internet users in Africa compared to the rest of the world. At the bottom left of figure 10c is shown the growth of Internet users and cell phone subscribers. This may suggest that cell phone infrastructure may be a very valuable way to leverage Internet growth.
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