To what extent did one state, in the first ten years following independence, effectively respond to social and economic challenges?

Candidates are required to consider the extent to which one newly independent state responded effectively to social and economic challenges. Social challenges may refer to the integration of, or confrontation with, diverse social, ethnic, racial or religious groups. Economic challenges may include the country’s modernization, the need to formulate new economic and fiscal policies, integration into the world market, lack of capital, a need to reform land ownership or tackle dependency on another nation. In some cases, candidates may consider whether a newly independent state has recovered from the social and economic damage inflicted by a war of independence. There may have been the social challenge of deciding how to treat a colonial elite. Equal treatment of social and economic challenges is not necessary. There is some allowance for the effects of the policies beyond ten years if it is relevant to the response.