DEBT-
Debt is a continuous problem because it is like war preventing development in many ways. The main offender though is interest. This means that developed countries charge a poorer country for burrowing money, and in the time it takes for the poorer country to pay back the interest as well as the original debt, they may have paid the original sum back multiple times over. This can slow development down for decades.
NATURAL DISASTERS-
Natural Disasters can take development back further then even a fierce war. They can ruin buildings that could aid development (i.e. Hospitals, Schools etc.) and they can kill many people who call also aid development (i.e. Builders, Doctors, Teachers etc). The damage they cause is horrific and reparations can cost insane amounts of money. This will also encourage debt, which will further hinder development.
CLIMATE-
Sometimes the climate in which a third world country is in could be described to be a gentle yet constant natural disaster. For example, hot countries will almost likely suffer drought and famine. This would kill many people through starvation and it would also affect the cash crop situation negatively.
CASH CROPS-
Cash crops hardly contribute to helping the debt crisis and it ensures that farmers and others native to the country in question go hungry.
GREED-
The rich countries will also take advantage of the poor countries desperation. For example, they would buy cash crops like cotton, cocoa, coffee, tea and tobacco for a much lower price then they are worth. This slows down debt repayment and therefore development.
LACK OF ACCESS- As these countries are poor, they may not have many well-built roads. This would prevent access in times of disaster and the governments would therefore have to spend more money on more expensive equipment such as helicopters instead of Ambulances.
CHARITY-
While being greedy which the third world countries could do without, other developed countries lend aid when their underdeveloped neighbours have suffered terribly in a natural disaster or in a famine. For example, British Charity CAFOD has an extensive history of helping underdeveloped countries by providing food, fund and aid workers when they have experienced flood, fire, famine, earthquake and any other natural disaster. They give money to poor villages to help buy water pumps and other necessities. They also do community work to help the poor to organize themselves. This could involve politics and defending their rights or education, to ensure that the village children have a future.
CONCLUSION-
There are many reasons for the Third World needing to develop through the many negative effects of events that happen out there. Cash crops, for example, are
A reason for development. The Government will be so keen to get themselves out of financial dire straits that they will allow their people to starve and die by denying them food, which they will sell for the cash value. The main reason that world development is needed is because so many people, over half the world’s population, is in distress. They are dying. They are ill. Their governments can’t keep up with the bad news as it happens. The First World can only help the Third World so much. They need to develop so that they can support themselves and their people and give them happy lives.
