the usfg should substantially increase public health assistance to sub-Saharan Africa

Observation 1: inherency 1.The current US aid programs are sending aid with a neoliberal mind set Sanders 01 Accompanying neoliberal reforms of the macro-economy have been health sector reforms. Key components include user fees, insurance schemes and introduction of managed competition; and rationing of health care through the identification of public health and clinical "packages", comprising a set of (often limited) interventions. 2.And western hopes of improving the African economy are based on western ideals of improving trade liberalization. Bonds 07 However, what becomes clear from all these events is the establishment's urge to merely revise and restate mainstream conceptions of Africa's plight. Witness Tony Blair's Commission for Africa report, for example. Africa is poor, ultimately, because its economy has not grown The public and private sectors need to work together to create a climate which unleashes the entrepreneurship of the peoples of Africa, generates employment and encourages individuals and firms, domestic and foreign, to invest the Africa Commission co-opted key African elites into a modified "neoliberal"—free market—project. 3.And aid from the west is geared to support the west no the countries in need. Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. 11/22/2006 the West invests in the infrastructure in developing countries in two venues only: Through international finance organizations The implementation of these infrastructural projects is awarded to contractors through international tenders, wherein bids are submitted from the world over. Rarely, a local firm outbids its better financed first world rivals. Local firms usually have the lower hand. The other possibility is that multinational firms get involved. But this kind of financing comes with a lot of strings attached. The multinationals expect to get back both their investment and a reasonable return on it. Their contribution to the local economy, during the construction of the infrastructure, is fleeting, at best. Thus the plan: The United States Federal Government will cease all neoliberal policies in Sub-Saharan Africa, though action such as but not limited to modification of aid, removal of neoliberal conditions, and taxation of multilateral corporations. All action will be implemented though the US congress. Funding for the program will come from the tax revenues, and congress has the ability to redirect fund if needed. Observation 2: Solvency 1.Without neoliberal policies Sub-Saharan Africa could solve its problems Bonds 07 By contrast, rigorous studies and analyses now confirm the negative consequences of neoliberal policies Trade liberalisation has cost sub-Saharan Africa $272 billion over the past 20 years. Had they not been forced to liberalise as the price of aid, loans and debt relief, sub-Saharan African countries would have had enough extra income to wipe out their debts and have sufficient left over to pay for every child to be vaccinated and go to school. Two decades of liberalisation has cost sub-Saharan Africa roughly what it has received in aid. The first step to effect genuine growth and deliver resources to health services, welfare, and basic infrastructure is, instead, for African societies and policymakers to identify and prevent the vast and ongoing outflows of the continent's existing and potential wealth. 2.Removing neoliberal policies is the only to ha successful development in Africa Jauch, et. Al October 2007 The development process needs to deal with various other aspects such as fiscal, trade, social and education policies, bear in mind the need to change the external economic relations, which currently are a major stumbling block for a comprehensive development agenda. The liberalisation programmes are all obstacles to a comprehensive African development agenda. Advantage 1: poverty 1.Neoliberal policies force local communities into the global economy where they can not compete with massed marketed agriculture because poor people in these countries are more likely to buy cheep prices from foreign countries. Thus African countries must refocus their economies on industrial exports and become slaves to the multi-national corporations of the world. African countries are forced to export all of their resources to developed countries. Harare, 2007 NATURAL resources in themselves are not necessarily wealth unless they are transformed into finished products what counts is the processing of these natural resources into semi-finished or finished consumer products, which are then exported. Most African countries still follow the colonial trend of exporting their resources to Europe and North America in their raw form, largely because they do not have the processing industries. . It is quite sad that furniture shops are stocked with imported furniture, yet we have the raw materials to make these products here. The tragedy is that big European companies buy raw materials from Africa at prices fixed by them. They make fantastic profits, which do not in any way benefit the source countries. 2.Thus African countries cannot experience economic growth as they receive little money from exports, and the leading products in their countries are imports. The Guardian, 05 The sprawling port of Senegal's capital is the import-export hub for west Africa. Cheap, subsidised US rice, EU poultry and Italian tomatoes are unloaded from gantries for the local market, with sub-Saharan cotton and tropical fish are destined for Europe. But the activity masks a crisis. In 2001 Senegal's economy was shrinking so fast it entered the WTO category of "least-developed country". Many least-developed countries can export to the EU freely, while Asian countries have to pay tariffs: 10% on fish, for example. As those tariffs are cut, Africa will be at a disadvantage. Asian energy costs are often cheaper, as are their labour costs about 60% of Senegal's fish exports remain unprocessed. They would command a much higher price if they could be exported after processing but the stainless steel plant and air-conditioning systems needed to meet EU standards are capital intensive, and it is foreign firms that can afford the investment. 3.Neo liberalism cause the rapid impoverishment of sub-Saharan Africa Adesina 04 page 15 in the period when neoliberalism promised that unleashing market forces will produce prosperity, the number of the poor in sub-Saharan Africa has skyrocketed While there was a global increase in the number of people living in poverty in the reference period, a greater proportion of people in sub-Saharan Africa were living in poverty than anywhere else in the world link between the macroeconomic objective of the neoliberal project and the massive impoverishment on the continent is one that continues to elude the libertarians 4.This poverty is structural violence – it's total impacts swamp civil conflicts and wars. Edward O'Neill, Jr., Professor Emergency Medicine, Tufts University, 2006, Awakening Hippocrates, p. 13-4 The fact that poor people around the world have shorter and harder lives is called "structural violence." between 1948 and 1967, structural violence claimed over 300 times the number of lives lost to "civil conflict." 18 million people died as the result of structural violence in 1965, more than all of World War II's battlefield casualties and 150 times more than in all of 1965s armed conflicts.