Writing the homeworks.
When you write on a topic, there are two main objectives.
1) Status. What is the status of the country on the topic in question. Base your answer on some research and evidence.
2) Context. How did the country come to have this status? What are the major factors over time that can be identified as leading up to this situation.
You can then expand some and talk about the future and priorities, but this is less important that presenting where the country is and providing some background information.
Sources (not meant as a comprehensive list, but should be enough to get you going):
African Development Bank: www.afdb.org
Asian Development Bank: www.adb.org
Caribbean Development Bank: www.caribank.org
CIA World Factbook: www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research: www.cgiar.org -in particular, look at International Food Policy Research Institute http://www.ifpri.org/
Food and Agricultural Organization: www.fao.org
International Labor Organization: www.ilo.org
International Monetary Fund: www.imf.org Look at country reports and PRSPs
North American
Development Bank: www.nadbank.org
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development: www.oecd.org
The Economist Intelligence Unit: http://www.eiu.com/site_info.asp?info_name=corporate_landing_Syracuse
The Penn World Tables: http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/
United Nations Development Program: www.undp.org, and http://hdr.undp.org/statistics/
for the human development report information.
United Nations Millennium Development Goals
page: http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/default.aspx
United States Agency for International
Development: www.usaid.gov
World Bank: www.worldbank.org
World Health Organization: http://www.who.int/en/
World Trade Organization: http://www.wto.org/
Searches on Econlit, Jstor can also provide good references to articles: Go into