comparing factors that lead to undevelopment

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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):
    1.  geography 
    2. extractive institutions 
    3. governmental corruption 
    4. internal or external conflicts 
    5. shaky financial systems 
    6. unfair judicial systems 
    7. ethnic, racial or tribal disparities 
    8. lack or misuse of natural resources 
    9. 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.0p
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