There is a severe food shortage problem where Cambodia’s workforce is eating about one meal a day. This is one of the main sources of the economic problem along with the corruption in the government since the labor is also one of the factors of production. If people are unhappy or are starving, they have less energy to work and therefore the quality of the workforce will drop. This would greatly affect the economic development.
Zimbabwe’s situation is quite obvious with the fact that most of the major problems come from the government. Because of Mugabe’s rule, the people are suffering. There is no freedom of speech and anything that threatens Mugabe’s power, the government annihilates it. The land is also given to Mugabe’s loyal followers so the maintenance is really bad. This means that the crops aren’t growing to their potential and is not giving the country a chance to grow. The biggest problem is that Mugabe has no wish to help the country.
Out of the economic development barriers, the biggest economic barrier is political and financial barriers. The political barriers come from the corrupt government while the financial barriers come from the corrupt government as well since the revenue isn’t being utilized effectively.
This first seminar was tough since we haven’t gotten used to the system and so it was difficult to participate. Kenny was really good with asking questions and trying to make us talk but since people either didn’t have anything to say about the topic or are just uncomfortable participating he just moved on. The Zimbabwe seminar was easier for me to understand since most of it revolves around Mugabe the the people’s rights. For my own seminar with my group on Ghana, I wish to motivate people to talk during seminars by organizing information in note form. If the information is set out in an easy to read, easy to understand manner, more people will be willing to participate as well as understand the material and have opinions.
