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Assignment: The Role of Weak Institutions in Underdevelopment
Use the Internet to research one developing nation from the list at the bottom of this paragraph. Your research should include an examination of the effects that the distribution of foreign aid can have on a developing country.
Countries you may write about are as follows and no other country will be acceptable. Note: Haiti, Rwanda, Sudan, Egypt, Iraq, Sierra Leone and Columbia are not on this list.
Middle East
Libya Gaza Lebanon
Africa
The Central African Republic Mozambique Liberia Zimbabwe (after transition from Rhodesia)
Latin America
Venezuela
East Asia, Southeast and Southwest Asia
Japan (after WWII) India or Pakistan after the 1971 war over Bangladesh Vietnam
Europe
Germany (after WWII) Kosovo Ukraine
2. Write at least a three page research paper in which you:
1. Identify the weak institutions that make it so difficult to advance development in the Third World country that you have selected. Support your response with concrete examples of each of the results that you have cited.
2. Analyze the specific actions that the leadership of the selected country has taken, through the use of its foreign aid from donor nations and international lending institutions, to relieve the severe problems caused by institutional failure and conflict.
3. Discuss whether or not the state's internal institutions are working to improve development in the selected country. Support your response with examples.
4. Use at least five good academic resources in this assignment, excluding Wikipedia, blogs, dictionaries, encyclopedias and other nonacademic material. Approval of resources is at the instructor's discretion.
3. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
• Contain no abstract and be at least three pages of written text in length, excluding tables and graphs.
• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow the APA format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the professor's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
4. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
• Analyze how funding in the form of aid, investment, and loans moves from industrialized nations to the developing world to alleviate the problems caused by warfare.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in sociology of developing countries.
• Write clearly and concisely about sociology of developing countries using proper writing mechanics.
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