Barriers to Economic Growth and Development

What are some of the main barriers to economic growth and development?

This is a revision presentation covering examples of barriers ti economic growth and development in emerging and developing countries.

In their revision students should consider factors such as:

• Poor infrastructure
• Human capital inadequacies
• Primary product dependency
• Declining terms of trade
• Savings gap; inadequate capital accumulation
• Foreign currency gap and capital flight
• Corruption, poor governance, impact of civil war
• Population issues