Why are some countries richer than others - Part 2 by Gareth Taylor https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5 This time, follow my steps en-us 2016-08-02 08:37:19 UTC 2017-05-17 02:04:08 UTC hello@padlet.com Eric Hu- Inclusive Political Institutions https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369039 There is a interesting phenomenon in the world wide that the most of rich countries are democratic countries with freedom, therefore it could be considered that political institutions is an important factor which could affects national economic success.




]]> 2016-08-02 12:49:34 UTC https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369039 Ignorance (Michael.j https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369048 Topic
Is ignorance the dicisive factor that cause the economic failure, the marjorty of arguments pointing the ignorance of leaders.

Overall arguments
Claim such as nations are poor because their rulers dont know how to make them rich, western leaders are better informed or better advised

Arguments
Killick argues that African governments had expert advice after independence while the majority of them still suffering poverty eventhought government know the correct way of allocating resources. However,  a shoe factory was built in the middle of Ghana mile from the market, that means as long as the nations accepts free market, ignorance of populations will still have inappopurity allocation of resources occurs which might still lead to  market failure while they have correct enviorment for investment. Therefore, either part of participle of nations can not bring success economy while other part are ignorance.]]> 2016-08-02 12:49:48 UTC https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369048 Geography (Alice)  lamalice512 https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369058 Argument : Geography is one of the main impact which affect the global economic

1. Argument of Montesquieu
The 18th  century French philosopher--Montesquieu  who suggest that "too hot-tempered"of some of hot countries to make people become lazy to work .
Example:
The GDP of the Africa countries mostly is lower than the European country , this may related the climate difference between two different area.

2. Hot climate affect the development of the nation 

]]> 2016-08-02 12:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369058 Culture (Bogdan)  https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369183 Economic prosperity of countries is linked with the culture. For instance, the region of Sub-Saharan Africa in poorer than most of other parts of the world. 
However some of the argumets are based on racial and national stereotypes. 

According to Austen and Headrick (1983) argued that there was a "rapid take-up" of technologies such as the wheel, writing and plough; which were introduced by European colonialists. ]]> 2016-08-02 12:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369183 PLEF-Leo https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369215 Topic: Is Political system have important influences in economic area?
Main points: 1. Democratic not a main factor what is influenced economic.
Arguments 1: USA and Mexico. Both countries are democratic countries, but in Nogales, it has clear differences between two countries parts. In US
A, most of people are majority graduate high school， but in Moxico part, few people graduate from high shcool. 
Main points 2: Democracy will influence some situation. For example, South and North Korea. These two countries have big difference in political system. And also led to their economic situation has big difference. 
Main points 3: Democracy political system has more innovation power. 
Evidences: Big Multinational Enterprise
 
]]> 2016-08-02 12:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369215 Inclusive Political Institutions(Peter) https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369224 Political Institution plays an important role in global economy.

Argument 1: The uneven GDP is affected by different political institutions  such as the uneven dissemination of technologies.
CIA World Factbook (2016) shows that the economic performance and basic policy of South Korean and North Korea. South Korean and North Korean are in the almost same position of geography, but the average income (approx) of South Korean is about 45 times of the average ]]> 2016-08-02 12:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369224 Geography (Cheryl) https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369241 Many scholars have argued that geography is the key factor that led to differences impact on human activity and economics.

Montesquieu, a French Philosopher in the 18th century, considered that tropical climates tend to be lazy and lack inquistiveness as people are living the countries which are 'too hot-tempered'.  Moreover, Parker(2000) argues that the distance from the equator matters in economic development. Human are usually adapted to live a climate with temperature around 25 degrees, therefore, the social technology have developed better in arctic temperature due to people had to learn how to produce clothes and food to survive. ]]> 2016-08-02 12:53:40 UTC https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369241 Ignorance (Basyeerah) https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369259 For:
From this standpoint, ignorance is refer to an attitude of the country's leader. The quality's of the leader play a prominent role in leading the country towards an economic success or failure.

Evidence:
According to Killick (1978) based on his experience working as a government adviser to the first Ghanian President, (President Kwamen Nkrumah) states that the regime made a numerous of mistakes including developing inefficient state run industry. For example in the case of building the shoes factory that were built in the middle of Ghana despite the location of the Tannery (leather) and the market is close to each other and located in Accra further away from the shoes factory. In a matter of fact, these location is important in calculating the transportation cost that can be cut down if the shoes factory located in Accra.

Against:
However, it is important to consider that in democratic country leaders usually have their own political agenda and in certain case individual willing to do anything to make sure they are staying in their privilege position.

Evidence:
Killick (1978) mentions that sometimes it weren't ignorance in the case of African governments after all had expert advice after independence as the new leaders had to negotiate for political support to legitimize the undemocratic regime. ]]> 2016-08-02 12:54:00 UTC https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369259 Ignorance (Naziratul) dknaziratul https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369362 Analysis: Ignorance have been argued that where it was one of the reason that led to differences in economic prosperity of the countries. 

Example For: Nations are poor because their rulers dont know how to make their country rich. For instance, the case of Ghana as argued by Klllick (1978) that Ghana under the ruled of President Kwame Nrumah (The first president of Ghana) where the regime had made many many mistakes including developing inefficient state run industry. 

Example Against: On the other hand, China is one of the country that showed that ignorance is not the matter of the poor economic. For decades, China ]]> 2016-08-02 12:55:59 UTC https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369362 Geography Jia https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369528 Argument: One of the most important factors in development is geography. 

Evidence: According to Williams (2007) that in a good Geography  may affect the economic as the Geography for one country as divide by four part which are Climate, Location, Resource and Stability.  As Wetzl (1980) argue that making trade on ship will cost less that transport on land.  ]]> 2016-08-02 12:58:06 UTC https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117369528 Cultural Impacts on economic prosperity https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117371165 Whether cultural impacts is a decisive factor to economic prosperity can be critical. despite racial and national stereotypes, many evidences have shown high possibility that development of economy can be affected greatly by culture differences.]]> 2016-08-02 13:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/taylorg2/oqxg4ufw3zd5/wish/117371165