Urbanization and foreign aid

Assignment 1: Urbanization and Foreign Aid

Due Week 5 and worth 200 points

Use the Internet to research one (1) developing nation of your choice. Your research should include an examination of urbanization and foreign aid, as well as the material covered by the Webtext in Weeks 1 through 5.

Write a three to four (3-4) page research paper in which you:

1. Compare and contrast three (3) positive and three (3) negative results of urbanization within the developing country that you have selected. Support your response with concrete examples of each of the results that you have cited.
2. Analyze the specific actions that the leadership of the selected country has taken, through the use of its foreign aid from donor nations and international lending institutions, to relieve the severe problems caused by urbanization.
3. Discuss whether or not the efforts to reduce urbanization problems within the selected country through the use of foreign aid were successful. Support your response with examples.
4. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length. 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze how funding in the form of aid, investment, and loans moves from industrialized nations to the developing world to alleviate the problems caused by urbanization.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in sociology of developing countries.
• Write clearly and concisely about sociology of developing countries using proper writing mechanics.