On average, the majority live in a vicious circle of poverty as they cannot invest and even support the education of their children.

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In sub-Saharan Africa, where much of the population lives on the edge of subsistence, poverty and slow economic growth, or outright decline, increased the likelihood of future state collapse, thereby trapping the countries in a vicious circle of poverty and political instability.

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