Analyze the features that the ldcs have in common

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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.

Reference no: EM132168242

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