Assignment 2: Lending Institutions, Health Care, and Human Capital

Assignment 2: Lending Institutions, Health Care, and Human Capital

Use the Internet to research one (1)
developing nation of your choice. Your research should include an examination of
lending institutions, health care, and human capital, as well as the material
covered by the Webtext and lectures in Weeks 6 through 9.

Write a three to four (3-4) page research
paper in which you:

2. Explore whether or not funding from
   international lending institutions like the World Bank and the IMF are helping
   or hindering the social, economic, or political development of the country that
   you have selected. Support your response with examples.
4. Discuss, with examples, at least four (4)
   substantive ways in which a healthy population strengthens the economy of the
   country that you have selected.
6. Ascertain the degree to which the leadership
   of your chosen country has used foreign aid to improve its health care system.
   Support your response with concrete examples.
8. Use at least five (5) quality academic
   resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia, blogs, and other
   nonacademic websites do not qualify as academic resources. Approval of resources
   is at the instructor’s discretion. Resources must also be within the last seven
   (7) years.

Your assignment must follow these formatting
requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New
  Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and
  references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor
  for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of
  the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and
  the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required
  assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes
associated with this assignment are:

• Determine how human capital is used and what
  effect gender disparity has on these decisions.
• Determine what role health plays in
  developing economies.
• Examine the role that the International
  Monetary Fund and World Bank play in transfers and the conditions they set to
  effect this funding.
• Use technology and information resources to
  research issues in sociology of developing countries.
• Write clearly and concisely about sociology
  of developing countries using proper writing mechanics.