Assignment
Instructions
Paper specifications:
• 8-10 page double spaced paper, exclusive of reference page and/or tables (this means you must be concise).
• In accordance with APA Style (6th Edition). Please use resources provided through this course space or the WSU library to verify citation, reference, formatting, and stylistic guidelines.
• A minimum of 8 references are required; better papers use a variety of sources and have more than the minimum. A well written paper will draw from web-based resources, technical reports, books, and research articles.
FIRST you need to choose one nation from the list below for your poverty profile:
48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
The world´s most impoverished and vulnerable countries.
The least developed countries (LDCs) are a group of countries that have been classified by the UN as "least developed" in terms of their low gross national income (GNI), their weak human assets and their high degree of economic vulnerability.
Definition of least developed countries.
The term "Least Developed Countries (LDCs)" describes the world's poorest countries with following 3 criteria:
* Low-income criterion based on a three-year average estimate of the gross national income (GNI) per capita (under $750 for inclusion, above $900 for graduation)
* Human resource weakness criterion involving a composite Human Assets Index (HAI) based on indicators of:
(a) nutrition; (b) health; (c) education; and (d) adult literacy.
* Economic vulnerability criterion based on indicators of the instability of agricultural production; the instability of exports of goods and services; the economic importance of non-traditional activities (share of manufacturing and modern services in GDP); merchandise export concentration; and the handicap of economic smallness.
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Africa
Angola
Benin
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad Comoros
Congo
Djibouti
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gambia Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Lesotho
Liberia
Madagascar Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mozambique
Niger
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal Sierra Leone
Somalia Sudan
Tanzania
Togo
Uganda Zambia
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Caribbean
Haiti
Asia
Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan Cambodia
Lao PDR
Maldives
Myanmar
Nepal
Timor-Leste
Yemen
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Source: Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
Your paper MUST address the following information and include each of the following 7 headings in your paper.
Criteria
1. Cultural background
a. Briefly describe their nationalities, language, and religion.
b. Discuss some of 2 of the country's unique customs they practice.
2. Historical/political context.
a. Provide a brief history of the country (at least 4 major events)
b. What type of government system is in place?
c. Who is their current president?
3. Resources and distribution of wealth.
a. Describe their various: natural, technological, and human resources.
b. What is the distribution of labor force by occupation (include % for Agriculture, Industry, Services)
c. How is the wealth in this nation distributed? (for example, what percentage of the wealthy population own the country's income? Wealth Gap?)
Section 4. Economic and non-economic indicators of well-being
a. Choose 4 economic factors from the article by Sumner (2006): GDP, GDP per capita, Unemployment rate, Population below poverty line, GINI coefficient, Population living below $1 a day, Real wages, Poverty Gap.
You need to include the actual statistics/data for all 4 economic indicators.
b. Choose 4 non-economic factors from the article by Sumner (2006): education enrolment rates, survival to secondary schools, literacy rates, mortality and morbidity rates, health service usage, and household infrastructure, clean water, HIV/AIDS, life expectancy.
You need to include the actual statistics/data for all 4 non-economic indicators)
c. Analyze the data from the 8 factors and discuss how these stats explain the living conditions in this country
d. Discuss the differences in poverty by gender, age, geographic location.
Reference:
Sumner, A. (2006). Economic well-being and non-economic well-being. In M. McGillivray & M. Clarke (Eds.), Understanding human well-being (pp. 54-73). NY: United Nations University Press. (see attached pdf file for article)
5. Poverty relief efforts
a. Name and describe at least 3 government or private/non-profit programs that are intended to directly or indirectly alleviate poverty within the country you are discussing.
b. Does the aid program focus on building resiliency?
c. Does the aid program target at the individual level, family level or community level?
d. Is the program a grass-roots or top-down program?
6. Compare poverty alleviation efforts to those in the US
a. Describe at least two poverty programs in here in the US (ideas are listed below) that the US government employs to fight poverty.
b. Compare the 2 US poverty programs with poverty alleviation efforts in the country you have selected for your profile. How are the programs similar or different in the 2 countries?
c. Do the programs reflect similar or different ideologies?
d. Do you think the US could learn something from any of the programs you have discussed from your profile country?
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
Attachment:- Paper.rar