The Origin Of Underdevelopment And Poverty In The Democratic Republic Of Congo: Mismanagement, Lack

The Origin Of Underdevelopment And Poverty In The Democratic Republic Of Congo: Mismanagement, Lack Of Effective Administration Or Corruption? Solutions For a Bright Future For The Population.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is colonized by the Belgium. In addition, the country became independent on 30^th June 1960. The aim of this paper is to examine the issues faced by the DRC, which led to poverty and underdevelopment in the country (Nationsonline.org, 2020). This paper includes the objectives of the study, which describes main aim of this paper. This paper also contains research delimitation. In addition, background to the study provides the past and present economic problems of the country. The literature review helps to assess the paper in more organized way. It illustrates the previous studies based on poverty and underdevelopment of the DRC.

The country faced poverty and development due to various lack in administration and management process. Here, this paper will examine the condition of the country in terms of administrative and management system. It would also try to figure out what contributed in the poverty and development of the country. In addition, this paper would also suggests measure in order to solve the problem of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Laudati, 2014). The country should focus on its informal sector in order to bring economic transformation in terms of wealth and development. There exists corruption and manipulation in the public sector of the country. Thus, the public sector of the country should be well organized and regulated. In addition, for the development of the private sector, some policies should be taken to attract investors. To strengthen the management and administration of the country new innovation driven technology should be implemented. The analysis of the paper would help the DRC to manage and to coordinate with the current system.

The research associated with this paper would base on management and administrative system of the country (Zhou, 2017). It would examine present and past management and administrative issues. The country faced various organization problems.

The contextual objective of this paper is to examine the factors which are accountable for the underdevelopment and poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Since the independence in 1960, the country has been performing under mismanagement, lack of effective administration and corruption. The geographical area of DRC is extended over one million square kilometres alongside the Congo River basin. The western part of DRC is encompassed by mountains while, the north part is covered by dense grassland. Having been located at the equilateral region, the country faces severe thunderstorm during the wet season. The rainfall in this region is not sufficient to the growth of the agricultural sector. Most of the residents in Congo believe in Protestant churches. Their economic activities are deeply regulated by the traditional religion activities (Asongu & Ssozi 2017).  Since the independence, the government has been trying to improve the educational opportunity for all the people irrespective of their level of income. Nonetheless, the education sector has failed to deliver an impressive outcome for the economy. As a result of the dearth of unskilled labour is the great concern for the economy (Madani, Zarezadeh & Morid 2014). Moreover, the statistical data asserts that about 42% of the total population deprived from proper schooling and less than 1% of the people are able to access the higher education in Congo. This clearly shows the ineffectiveness of the management of central government. The economy is rich in economic and natural resources, including mineral wealth and fertile soils. However, the per capita income of the country is recorded at $419 dollar which is far below than the average international income of the country.

Research Delimitation

Literature review assists the researchers to develop the theoretical aspects of the study. It directs the researchers to achieve the objectives of the study. As per the researchers, the lack of accessibility to the education system has created the dearth of skilled labour supply to the economy. Subsequently, the ample economic resources have not been utilized by the policy makers even after the economy is having a lot of opportunities in utilizing the natural resources. Many people are failed to access the proper education as they do not have sufficient financial power to obtain the higher education level (Salahudeen et al., 2014). On the other hand, the low level of foreign investment has aggravated the production level of the country. The country has been experiencing a considerable amount of uncertainty in the capital flow. Apart from that, the domestic producers have been failed to improve their technical skills, which in result, has reduces the quality of goods and services in the economy. On the account of evolving competition in the international market, the domestic producers have lost their market strength. This has lowered their market share in the international (Colón-González et al., 2016). Moreover, the country’s lower exchange rate has discouraged the exporter to take participated in the trading sector. As a result of that, the lower export earnings generate lower income for the country. Altogether, the foreign reserve of the country has been declining over the last couple of years.

Conclusion

The country faced various environmental threats. It is one of the vulnerable country in terms of environmental disaster. The administration and management of the country was unable to control those natural disasters. Thus, it led to major economic loss (Jäger & Zogg, 2019). In addition, the educational sector of the country was also underdeveloped. Thus, lack of education led to poor management of the public and private system within the country. On the other hand, the agricultural sector of the country also suffered due to poor weather condition and natural disaster. Therefore, the available natural resources were also not utilized efficiently. The ineffective measures of the administrative and management system of the government was unable to improve the country in field o technology. It is one of the essential tool for the development of the country in this era. In addition, the country also suffered from lack of capital investment, which is helpful in economic development of the country. The management system was also unable to attract capital investment in the country.

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