Uganda

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This paper discusses how Uganda shows all the traits of a developing country. It looks at how it faces the many environmental problems common to many developing countries, such as deforestation, overgrazing, soil erosion, invasions by introduced species, poaching and wetland draining. It also discusses how the Ugandan population is not very healthy, with a low life expectancy, due to HIV infection and deaths from simple (treatable) illnesses, such as malaria and meningitis. It analyzes what exactly development means for Uganda and its people and how development is composed of more than just economics. It looks at how political and cultural changes should also be taken into account as well.

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"Too much of development is ideas imposed from the outside by people "who know best", which is very much a patronizing attitude from the very people that are supposedly trying to help (especially in these worrying times where speaking about "regime change" is rarely challenged). People in developing countries are not stupid, they are just disadvantaged financially, which in this day and age, where money speaks louder than anything, even louder than the deaths of children from untreated diarrhea, is admittedly a hindrance, but not an insurmountable obstacle, if only they were given a fair chance: Fair Trade, a fair deal on the price of drugs from multinational drug companies, a fair hearing when help is needed desperately (Remember when Rwanda begged for coverage of its tribal warfare, and no-one would cover it? Remember when Colombia had three thousand deaths in an earthquake " which incidentally destroyed the coffee region for three years " and no-one listened)."

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