Evaluate the effectiveness of responses to economic challenges in the first ten years of independence in two states, each chosen from a different region.

The question requires that candidates make an appraisal of the effectiveness of responses to economic challenges in the first ten years of independence in two states, each of which must be chosen from a different region. Candidates may evaluate the effectiveness of responses to challenges faced by Brazil when regionalism obstructed economic development and a slump in coffee prices posed problems. In Vietnam, candidates may evaluate the effectiveness of responses to economic challenges either solely in North Vietnam after 1945 or in a united Vietnam after 1976, when the expansion of a planned economy into the South met with mixed success. In India, Nehru’s economic policies may be evaluated for their effectiveness along with his embrace of the policy of Non-Alignment as being key to the receipt of aid from both the USSR and the US. In Africa, candidates may evaluate the effectiveness of Nkrumah’s planned economy in newly independent Ghana or Nyerere’s policy of ujama in Tanzania that met with mixed results in both states. Candidates’ opinions or conclusions will be presented clearly and supported by appropriate evidence.

The question required candidates to make an appraisal of the effectiveness of responses to economic challenges in the first ten years of independence in two states, each of which must be chosen from a different region. Very few responses were seen.