ECON 112 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSIGNMENT This assignment requires you to write a 6-10 page paper on the topic described below. The proposal earns you
up to five points, and a soft copy is due on Canvas by 9:00 AM next Monday, April 27. A proposal, which
may be in the form of one or more questions, is a typed outline that includes the sources that you propose to
consult, and is not a summary—you haven’t yet written the paper! The paper itself earns you up to twenty
points, and a soft copy is due on Canvas by 11:59 PM on Monday, May 11. Together the proposal and the
term paper itself are worth up to 25% of your final grade.
What topic should you choose?

ECON 112 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSIGNMENT
I require you to describe and evaluate the progress or failure to develop economically of a country or region
over a period of time. The country or region may be any one in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia,
and the Pacific. (You may not choose Britain, Ireland, or a country in continental Europe, or the U.S. or
Canada, or Australia or New Zealand, but you may write about Russia or Japan.) Your writing should focus
on how and why economic development proceeded—rapidly, slowly, or not at all, as the case may be. You
should select a period of time, shorter or longer as you see fit. (A paper on the economic development of a
colony before it became a sovereign nation is an appropriate topic, e.g., the Gold Coast under British rule before
independence as Ghana in 1957.)

ECON 112 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSIGNMENT

Your writing should focus
on how and why economic development proceeded—rapidly, slowly, or not at all, as the case may be. You
should select a period of time, shorter or longer as you see fit. (A paper on the economic development of a
colony before it became a sovereign nation is an appropriate topic, e.g., the Gold Coast under British rule before
independence as Ghana in 1957.)