Equatorial Guinea
Each student will act as a policy advisor to a developing country that is
categorized as a low-income country. The instructor will assign you to one of the
low-income countries. You cannot change the country that you have been assigned
without the prior consent of the instructor. Using indicators from datasets, such as
the Human Development Report and the World Development Indicators (links are
below), you can assess the factors that caused this country to be underdeveloped.
You need to argue that one factor in specific is more critical than the others. You
need to support your argument with evidence from the data, and other information
that you can gain from your background reading about your country. You also need
to suggest practical and sensible solutions to this critical problem. Your grade will
depend on how logical, consistent and convincing your arguments are.
Therefore, you can divide your paper into three parts. In the first section, you will
attempt to address all the factors that caused your country to be underdeveloped,
and support your argument with indicators. In this section, you have to refer to the
indicators of economic development, productivity, absolute poverty, income
inequality, population, urbanization, education, health, the sectoral structure of the
economy, environmental quality, international trade, foreign finance, political
conditions, and any other pertinent indicators discussed in class. You are required to
use only the links in the web page to get the indicators you need for your analysis.
Do not use any other source of data unless there is an indicator, that you need to
support and strengthen your argument, which is not available in these links. In the
second section, you will determine which factor amongst all other factors is the most
critical. You also have to discuss why you consider this factor more important than
the others. In the third section, you will provide suggestions that this country can
adopt to solve the one critical problem that you emphasized in the second section in
order to get out of the poverty trap. The solutions you suggest have to be creative,
practical and implementable.
DATA
World Development Indicators:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator
Human Development Report:
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