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 Country Profiles May 05, 2007 12:49 PM

I'm making a set of country profiles, with focus on the connection between poverty, trade, globalization and energy -
Each page will have links to initiatives working to do something about it  [ send green star]
 
NIGER May 05, 2007 12:50 PM

According to the HDi measurement the poorest country in the world...
Having some of the largest deposits of uranium ore, it's an absurdity that the country in the modern age - the atomic age, have to import 50 % of it's electricity consumption. Well because of course Niger don't have any Nuclear Power Plants, all the ore is mined and exported by a french multinational - so though being the 3. largest producer of uranium Niger have to import it's energy sources !!!

http://www.nyertun.net/country/niger.html  [ send green star]
 
AREVA May 06, 2007 10:57 AM

AREVA owns two mines in Arlit, Niger, where it employs 1,600 persons; Niger is one of the world's three largest uranium exporters. The population of Niger was exposed to serious famine in 2005. Areva therefore gave 130,000 euros in June 2005 to the alimentary crisis coordination group of Niger, and 120,000 euros in July in the form of two planes loaded with food and set up by Bernard Kouchner's Réussir NGO. According to Le Canard Enchaîné, this aid amounted to 0.05% of AREVA's annual profits of 428 million euros.
"Peu enrichi à l'uranium ("Not much enriched by uranium")", Le Canard Enchaîné, August 3, 2005.  [ send green star]
 
SIERRA LEONE May 07, 2007 10:43 AM

Many of the countries with poor living conditions are not places without wealth...  - things we see as symbols of wealth and that is used by the rich to expose their wealth, like gold and diamonds come from some of the poorest countries. Like Sierra Leone, where over 60% of the export income is from Diamonds
http://www.nyertun.net/country/sierraleone.html  [ send green star]
 
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