Ronald E. McNair Program


Ashley Simmons 
   SCHOOL:  Tougaloo College 
  MAJOR:    Economics
  MENTOR:   Dr. William Shughart 
  EXPECTED GRADUATION DATE:  May 2005 
  ORGANIZATIONS & HONORS: 
  • 2001 Freshman Voice Newspaper Staff
  • 2001 Freshman Class Publicity Committee
  • 2001 – present Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society
  • 2002 – present Yearbook Staff, 2003 Secretary
  • 2002 Sophomore Class Reporter
  • 2002 – present Resident Assistant
  • 2002 – present Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, 2002 Student Activities Council Representative, 2003 Treasurer
  • 2003 Junior Class Representative
       email:  ASimmons18@hotmail.com

 


ABSTRACT

How to Help Ease Economic Disparities of Third World Countries


This paper, “How to help ease economic disparities of third world countries,” is aimed at offering solutions to assist the economies of underdeveloped nations.  Often poor states suffer from poverty, meager educational systems, corrupt government bureaucracies, and a lack of a diversified economy.  Antidotes that have not worked are efforts to improve education alone, investment in human and physical capital single-handedly, population control, foreign aid, and debt relief.  This may be because the remedies ignored the basic economic principle that people respond to incentives.  Furthermore, government corruption and political instability can undermine reform efforts.