The slow road to paradise,” The Economist. Vol. 383, No. 8524.

Read the following article: (Attached)
– “The slow road to paradise,” The Economist. Vol. 383, No. 8524.

• Identify an important problem (or set of problems) in the country
• Describe what type of institutions may be causing or exacerbating the problem(s)
• Explain your diagnosis and propose a potential institutional solution that could address the problem(s)
A caveat: Your essay will not be graded on whether you take the “correct” stand, but on your skill in developing an argu- ment to support your stance and in using the material covered in the course to support this argument.

Instructions:
1. You should write an essay of no more than five typewritten (double-spaced) pages.
2. Your essay should show good expository style: A thesis statement opens the essay (normally in the very first para- graph) with an answer to the essay question. Subsequent paragraphs develop this proposition with explanations for the causal connection you claim. Evidence supports major assertions in the logical development of your thesis.
3. Your answer to this question should draw upon theoretical and factual materials found in the readings and the lectures. Your essay should demonstrate that you have actively engaged in critical analysis of some major arguments in this course and you know how to use them to analyze the “real” world.

Book of reference: Foundations of Comparative Politics