1.In less than 500 words and using appropriate data from the following
database:https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/worlddevelopment-report-2013-jobs-statistical-tables), please link
industrialisation to measures of social welfare of your choice. Do more
industrialised countries at similar levels of development (as measured
by GDP per capita) enjoy more social welfare than countries that have
skipped the industrialisation stage and have moved directly from
agriculture to services? Using 2 or 3 references to relevant literature
(approximately 250 words) please develop a punchline on why the
answer to this question is positive (or negative).
2.What is the link between financial development and economic
inequality? Please answer this question using data from this financial
development database
https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/gfdr/data/global-financialdevelopment-database and from World Development Indicators
database: https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-developmentindicators
After providing statistics in support to your answer and describing what
you see on your diagrams or tables, please develop a 250 punchline
explaining why the relationship between the variables of your choice is
positive (or negative).
3.In no more than 300-400 words, please argue in favour or against the
participation of African smallholder farmers in international agricultural
value chains.