Written Assignment: Comparing Factors that Lead to Underdevelopment

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Written Assignment: Comparing Factors that Lead to Underdevelopment

This assignment calls for you to select two Less Developed Countries (LDCs) and assess if there are any factors that are common to both as far as their development is concerned. Your two countries must come from the following list:

Burundi	Benin	Cameroon	Nigeria
Nicaragua	Guatemala	Central African Republic	North Korea
Angola	Ghana	Chad	Yemen
Eritrea	Cuba	Congo	Thailand
Egypt	Iran	Equatorial Guinea	Zimbabwe
Zambia	Oman	Ethiopia	Philippines
Congo	Liberia	Gabon	Bahrain
Tanzania	India	Guyana	Mexico
El Salvador	Lebanon	Honduras	Pakistan
Syria	Guinea	Kenya	Sri Lanka
Algeria	Gambia	Mozambique	Senegal
Malawi	Indonesia	Namibia	Vietnam
Morocco	Myanmar	Rwanda	Haiti
Sudan	Bolivia	Somalia	Kuwait
Mauritania	Mali	South Africa	Iraq
Botswana	Bangladesh	Tunisia	Niger
Libya	Malaysia	Uganda	Panama

Source: United Nations, 2014

It may help you to be familiar with the concept of poor governance, because this often plays a significant part in why a country is underdeveloped. According to the World Bank, governance is defined as how power is exercised in the management of a country's economic and social resources for development. Therefore, if good governance is synonymous with sound development management, then poor governance means a government has failed to deliver desirable outcomes for its people. This could mean that officials are corrupt, not transparent with their decisions, unqualified to make decisions in the first place, or prone to make decisions based on racism, tribalism or ethnicity — all of which are very common practices in LCDs.

The most common factor used to decide whether countries are underdeveloped nations is through the Human Development Index. Countries that are underdeveloped in nature offer poor health care, few educational opportunities, a low average life expectancy, a low number of job opportunities, few recreational facilities, poor economic growth, a low standard of living and a poverty-stricken life.

Instructions:

Write at least a six-page paper, in which you:

1. Identify the two LDCs (from the list above), which you will compare and assess. Explain why you chose these two countries.

2. Analyze the features that the LDCs have in common using at least five of the following nine factors (clearly label the five factors using headings):

a. geography

b. extractive institutions

c. governmental corruption

d. internal or external conflicts

e. shaky financial systems

f. unfair judicial systems

g. ethnic, racial or tribal disparities

h. lack or misuse of natural resources

i. closed (statist) economies

3. Use at least seven credible sources. Wikipedia, encyclopedias, dictionaries, blogs and other material that does not qualify as reputable academic source work at the college level. Do not use sources that are older than seven years.

Written

Assignment:

Comparing

Factors

that

Lead

Underde

velopment

This assignment calls for you to select two Less Developed Countries (LDCs) and

assess if there are any factors that are common to both as far as their

development is concerned. Your two countries

must

come from t

he following list:

Burundi

Benin

Cameroon

Nigeria

Nicaragua

Guatemala

Central

African

Republic

North

Korea

Angola

Ghana

Chad

Yemen

Eritrea

Cuba

Congo

Thailand

Egypt

Iran

Equatorial

Guinea

Zimbabwe

Zambia

Oman

Ethiopia

Philippines

Congo

Liberia

Gabon

Bahrain

Tanzania

India

Guyana

Mexico

Salvador

Lebanon

Honduras

Pakistan

Syria

Guinea

Kenya

Sri

Lanka

Algeria

Gambia

Mozambique

Senegal

Malawi

Indonesia

Namibia

Vietnam

Morocco

Myanmar

Rwanda

Haiti

Sudan

Bolivia

Somalia

Kuwait

Mauritania

Mali

South

Africa

Iraq

Botswana

Bangladesh

Tunisia

Niger

Libya

Malaysia

Uganda

Panama

Source

United

Nations,

2014

It may help you to be familiar with the concept of poor governance, because this

often plays a significant

part in why a country is underdeveloped. According to the

World Bank,

governance

is defined as how power is exercised in the management

Written Assignment: Comparing Factors that Lead to Underdevelopment

This assignment calls for you to select two Less Developed Countries (LDCs) and

assess if there are any factors that are common to both as far as their

development is concerned. Your two countries must come from the following list:

Burundi Benin Cameroon Nigeria

Nicaragua Guatemala

Central African

Republic

North Korea

Angola Ghana Chad Yemen

Eritrea Cuba Congo Thailand

Egypt Iran

Equatorial

Guinea

Zimbabwe

Zambia Oman Ethiopia Philippines

Congo Liberia Gabon Bahrain

Tanzania India Guyana Mexico

El Salvador Lebanon Honduras Pakistan

Syria Guinea Kenya Sri Lanka

Algeria Gambia Mozambique Senegal

Malawi Indonesia Namibia Vietnam

Morocco Myanmar Rwanda Haiti

Sudan Bolivia Somalia Kuwait

Mauritania Mali South Africa Iraq

Botswana Bangladesh Tunisia Niger

Libya Malaysia Uganda Panama

Source: United Nations, 2014

It may help you to be familiar with the concept of poor governance, because this

often plays a significant part in why a country is underdeveloped. According to the

World Bank, governance is defined as how power is exercised in the management