assignment
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Assignment Instructions
Paper specifications:
· 8-10 page double spaced paper, exclusive of reference page and/or tables (this means you must be concise).
· In accordance with APA Style (6th Edition). Please use resources provided through this course space or the WSU library to verify citation, reference, formatting, and stylistic guidelines.
· A minimum of 8 references are required; better papers use a variety of sources and have more than the minimum. A well written paper will draw from web-based resources, technical reports, books, and research articles.
FIRST you need to choose one nation from the list below for your poverty profile:
48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
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The world´s most impoverished and vulnerable countries.
The least developed countries (LDCs) are a group of countries that have been classified by the UN as "least developed" in terms of their low gross national income (GNI), their weak human assets and their high degree of economic vulnerability.
Definition of least developed countries.
The term "Least Developed Countries (LDCs)" describes the world's poorest countries with following 3 criteria:
* Low-income criterion
based on a three-year average estimate of the gross national income (GNI) per capita (under $750 for inclusion, above $900 for graduation)
* Human resource weakness criterion
involving a composite Human Assets Index (HAI) based on indicators of:
(a) nutrition; (b) health; (c) education; and (d) adult literacy.
* Economic vulnerability criterion
based on indicators of the instability of agricultural production; the instability of exports of goods and services; the economic importance of non-traditional activities (share of manufacturing and modern services in GDP); merchandise export concentration; and the handicap of economic smallness.
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Africa Angola Benin Burkina Faso Burundi Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gambia Guinea Guinea-Bissau Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mozambique Niger Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia Sudan Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia |
Caribbean Haiti Asia Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan Cambodia Lao PDR Maldives Myanmar Nepal Timor-Leste Yemen |
Source: Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/least_developed_countries.htm
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Your paper MUST address the following information and include each of the following 7 headings in your paper.
Grading Criteria
1. Cultural background (5 points)
a. Briefly describe their nationalities, language, and religion.
b. Discuss some of 2 of the country's unique customs they practice.
2. Historical/political context (5 points)
a. Provide a brief history of the country (at least 4 major events)
b. What type of government system is in place?
c. Who is their current president?
3. Resources and distribution of wealth (5 points)
a. Describe their various: natural, technological, and human resources.
b. What is the distribution of labor force by occupation (include % for Agriculture, Industry, Services)
c. How is the wealth in this nation distributed? (for example, what percentage of the wealthy population own the country’s income? Wealth Gap?)
Section 4. Economic and non-economic indicators of well-being (16 points)
a. Choose 4 economic factors from the article by Sumner (2006): GDP, GDP per capita, Unemployment rate, Population below poverty line, GINI coefficient, Population living below $1 a day, Real wages, Poverty Gap.
You need to include the actual statistics/data for all 4 economic indicators.
b. Choose 4 non-economic factors from the article by Sumner (2006): education enrolment rates, survival to secondary schools, literacy rates, mortality and morbidity rates, health service usage, and household infrastructure, clean water, HIV/AIDS, life expectancy.
You need to include the actual statistics/data for all 4 non-economic indicators)
c. Analyze the data from the 8 factors and discuss how these stats explain the living conditions in this country
d. Discuss the differences in poverty by gender, age, geographic location.
Reference:
Sumner, A. (2006). Economic well-being and non-economic well-being. In M. McGillivray & M. Clarke (Eds.), Understanding human well-being (pp. 54-73). NY: United Nations University Press. (see attached pdf file for article)
5. Poverty relief efforts (8 points)
a. Name and describe at least 3 government or private/non-profit programs that are intended to directly or indirectly alleviate poverty within the country you are discussing.
b. Does the aid program focus on building resiliency?
c. Does the aid program target at the individual level, family level or community level?
d. Is the program a grass-roots or top-down program?
6. Compare poverty alleviation efforts to those in the US (8 points)
a. Describe at least two poverty programs in here in the US (ideas are listed below) that the US government employs to fight poverty.
b. Compare the 2 US poverty programs with poverty alleviation efforts in the country you have selected for your profile. How are the programs similar or different in the 2 countries?
c. Do the programs reflect similar or different ideologies?
d. Do you think the US could learn something from any of the programs you have discussed from your profile country?
=US Programs to consider:
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· Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
· Medicaid (TANF)
· Children's Health Insurance Program
· Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC)
· Section 8 Housing Voucher Program
· Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program
· Unemployment insurance
· Earned Income Tax Credit
· Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
· Head Start / Early Head Start
· National School Lunch Program
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APA (3 points)
· I will NOT accept plagiarized papers - you must give credit where credit is due to the authors of the research you used in your paper.
· If you use a direct quote, put quotations marks around the quote. Always include (Author, year) when citing. Do not include the url as a citation. If no author is given, use the first words of the article title in place of the author's last name, then the year of publication.
· You must cite at least 8 references in your paper and then list them in the reference page using APA style with “Hanging Indents” (refer to this helpful video on how to create proper hanging indents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2isPBlRk048
· Papers need to be double spaced, 1" margins, and Arial 12-point font. The reference page also needs to be double spaced, meaning each citation is double spaced (not single).
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Check out these Guidelines for Class Papers:
APA tutorial:
http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx
Citing sources in your Reference page:
http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/DocAPAReferences.html
Purdue OWL Writing Lab: APA tips https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
APA Citation Style Quick Guide: WSU http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/quickguides/apa
Please refer to Optional APA Self Quizzes, found in the Guidelines for Papers link on the Course Information page of Learning Modules for help with properly citing, also refer to the Course Information page of Learning Modules for great poverty websites.
Additional Resources
The CIA World Factbook is a great place to start in locating data on your country
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
The Population Reference Bureau has a feature on their site where you can generate a data comparison for 2 or more countries.
http://www.prb.org/DataFinder.aspx
Index Mundi
Another helpful link: Human Development Reports
http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries
Eldis: Country Profiles for Poverty
http://www.eldis.org/go/country-profiles&theme=895#.VSWCYHBzcoA
The measurement of poverty: the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) http://geo-mexico.com/?p=5036
Grading Criteria
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Criteria |
Points |
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1. Cultural background (1 page) |
5 |
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2. Historical/political context (1 page) |
5 |
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3. Sources and distribution of wealth (1 page) |
5 |
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4. Economic and non-economic indicators of well-being (3 pages) |
16 |
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5. Poverty relief efforts (1-2 pages) |
8 |
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6. Compare poverty alleviation efforts to those in the US (1-2 pages) |
8 |
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7. Reference in APA style |
3 |
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TOTAL |
50 |
Preparing File for Submission
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