Question

What do you mean by underdevelopment? What are its causes?

Answer 1

Defination-

Underdevelopment, relating to international development, reflects a broad condition or phenomena defined and critiqued by theorists in fields such as economics, development studies, and postcolonial studies.


causes-


Health Poor health and healthcare is as much a cause ofunderdevelopment asunderdevelopment is a cause of poor health. Lack of sanitation and clean water supply, poor education, inadequate nutrition, and insufficient income to buy even the most basic drugs mean that the risk of disease is greatly augmented.

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Answer 2

The term underdevelopment is defined as the economy state where the level of living standard of people is very low. There may be lot of causes for underdevelopment. Some of them are given below:

i) Unemployment  

ii) Poverty  

iii) Child Marriage  

iv) Illiteracy  

v) High growth population rate  

vi) Injustice  

vii) Corruption  

viii) High dependence on agriculture  

ix) Economic inequality