you can choose any one of country in the world ,but the questions and answers must be related to poverty-related issues

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Refer to any country in Africa in answering these questions

1 . Explain briefly the measurement of economic development using social indicators approach

Resources in developing countries are poorly utilized , explain this statement

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Many countries of the world are still in the process of striving in to achieve a reasonable economic growth and development . Some economies are poor while others are already developed majority of the worlds economies fall under the title of less developed countries

or LDC s . There has been a big gap between the rich and the poor countries .This gap has been increasing year after year despite the fact that improvements have been reported in many countries . Economic development can be measured in different ways which include : the GNP approach where a countries gross national product (GNP ) is studied over a given period of time , GNP per capita where the ratio between a nations output and the population size are monitored . The economic welfare approach can also be used to measure economic development whereby increased consumption of goods and services is taken to mean economic development . The last but not least is the use of social indicators to measure economic development . Africa has been worst hit by poor economic growth and development . This therefore explains the measurement of economic development by use of social indicators . It narrows its scope to a nation that drew attention of the world following post election violence , which is Kenya (Baster N , 1972 , pp .4-8

Economists came up with a method of measuring economic development by use of social indicators . This is because social indicators give a clear picture of the quality of life that citizens of a particular nation live . These indicators vary depending on the economists view points and as a result two indices are used in measurement (Bonita R , 2006 , pp .32

The first index was developed by Morris D Morris . This is the physical quality of life index (PQLI .It uses three indicators which include life expectancy , infant mortality and level of literacy (Gupta A , Jain T Malhotra A , 1993 , pp .13 . According to this index the higher the life expectancy the higher the economic development Longer life is attributed to individuals ability to acquire basics of life and economic development will mean that many people , if not all , are in a position to access these basic needs . Such ability is directly translated to higher life expectancy .In the late 1990s ,the central bureau of statistics report on Kenyans economy indicated that the country 's economic growth was experiencing a negative growth rate , This drew a lot of concern and the report indicated that the life expectancy at this time was ranging between 45 and 47 years

High infant mortality rate is also attributed to poor economic growth and development . During this period of time ,many children who fall under the age of 5 years were reported to die as a result of diseases and malnutrition .Many...