Book Title:
Economic Development – Twelfth edition by Michael P. Todaro & Stephen C. Smith
1. Detail and discuss the barriers to economic growth. What must occur for LDC to move up toward an MDC? Your points should be exhaustive, and state which barriers/traps might be difficult to overcome.
2. What is economic development? How do we know when the economic development process has started and how can you measure its course?
3. What is the Human Development Index? What role might it play in the analysis of developing countries?
4. Compare and contrast the 4 approaches to economic development.
5. As world populations continue to increase, discuss how rapid population growth might threaten the economic progress of developing nations. How might rapid urbanization threaten growth within cities?
6. What is globalization and how is it affecting developing countries?
7. Discuss the dependency that developing countries might have on richer countries? How do richer countries also depend on developing countries?
8. What are complementarities in your everyday life Does the S-shaped curve in figure 4.1 shed any light on them?
9. Select a developing country, provide evidence to suggest which factors are their constraint on growth.
10. Discuss the 3-legged stool of income, health and education and how they might impact or influence economic development. What constraints might they place on growth and discuss policies that might be implemented to improve economic growth via these factors?
11. The gender gap for women in health, diseases, education, and income and the long term impact that either negatively or positively effects growth for the country?
