Political Science Question

Overview

Instructions:

You are a development advisor instructing leaders of one of the following countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Mexico, or Nigeria

Pick one of the countries listed above.

Identify the 5 most pressing development challenges in the country you have
chosen and explain your choices.

Next, use insights from institutionalist (market and/or state institutions), structural, and
cultural perspectives on development to explain the causes of the problems that you
have identified (you do need to use all 3 perspectives in total but only need to use 1
per problem).

Finally, offer at least 3 policy solutions to address some of the problems you’ve
identified. Discuss how these solutions are consistent with institutional, structural,
and/or cultural understandings of development. How might domestic or international
institutions help solve any of these problems?

For example, let’s say that you have identified discrimination against women as important development challenge in India. You find that cultural values privilege men, lead to female infanticide and social traditions in rural areas (i.e. dowry payments) keep women from being treated equally. However, you also find that democracy (a domestic institution) or international aid via an NGO has been helpful in correcting the problem to some degree. You offer advice to address the problem further by launching an education campaign with funds from the World Bank (an international institution) and also suggest some type of quota system for women to be instituted in small businesses, local governments etc.