Salam, everybody...today we will discuss again about social obstacles in development especially about corruption and traditional values and belief…such a nice issues that can be discussed. Here, we also provide the current issues to show you why this problem happens.
1) Corruption – In our opinion, corruption also is one of the obstacles that bring disastrous effect to development. Some of the country has their own culture where the corruption is normal practice and quite necessary for them. As in Africa, it has the potential to develop but the major problem is corruption. We can see it through the distinguished representative of the African Union had pointed out that the Millennium Development Goals are not being achieved because of the failure by many states to honor their commitments to provide adequate funding, while more that 1 billion people continue to live on less that a dollar a day. This is true!!....But according to reports we have seen, over a 30 year period, the leaders of one African country alone misappropriated some 300 billion dollars of their nation’s wealth; money which, had it been applied to human development programs would have gone far towards lifting the entire country out of poverty. This is because they think that corruption is a human rights issue, and unless certain national leaders begin to understand that their first responsibility is to their people and not to themselves. So, it is hard to see how any of the Millennium Development Goals can be achieved. Besides that, we can see in the Africa concept of appreciation and hospitality, a gift is a token. It is not demanded. The value is in the spirit of the giving, not the material worth. The gift is made in the open for all to see, never in secret. Where the gift is excessive, it becomes an embarrassment, and is returned. If anything, corruption has perverted the positive aspects of this age-old tradition'. For them, corruption is intrinsically linked to underdevelopment. As long as a person's normal income does not provide him with a decent living, the door will always be open to bribes.
2) Traditional values and beliefs- Some of the countries are having problem to foster their country's development when they are having problems with values and beliefs. The traditional values and beliefs also will hinder the development process. There is just one thing that we can say about traditional values and belief. If most of the people of the country are bounded to the traditional values and belief in the country, the harder it will be for them to cope with the needs to improve or develop because there will be some condition that require them to change their attitudes and mind-sets and they could do so because of that resistance. As we kow, Pakistan is the one country that bounded to the traditional values and beliefs. There are more than 1,900 registered all-female madrases in the country, around 15% of the total, that are experiencing a boom thanks to the failures of the Pakistani education system and an increasing appetite for traditional Islamic values among the lower middle classes. Nowadays, the new-age Islamic religious schools for girls are becoming hugely popular in Pakistan now. Female madrases in Pakistan are expanding at a dramatic rate, educating almost a quarter of a million young women and providing more than half of the candidates sitting graduate-level exams every year. There is an emergence of a very conservative value system. Madrases promote traditional roles for women and students feel confident about their position in society. You cannot associate this phenomena with poverty. The female madrases provide a lens to study the uncertain interface between traditional values and beliefs and global influences that often results in further radicalization of the traditional beliefs.
In a nutshell, we may say that we have to take more efforts to overcome the problem of corruption and traditional values and beliefs that become the major obstacles of development. We believe that the effectiveness of the government can be achieved without the existence of corruption and traditional values and beliefs. That’s all.....thank you.
Manager: Norzuriana binti Muhammad Nor
Nor Farah Fazleen: I'm totally agree with you about the obstacles to development is corruption. In our administration, truly we can said that the corruption happens in everywhere and every time. Not measure where or when this corruption happens. As we know, if more corrupt may happens in our countries, so how can we develop our countries very well, that I'm right? If the corruption happens at the administration levels, so we cannot help country to develop. Many public servant accept the corrupt as a part of search their risque. So, where they can get the blessing from ALLAH S.W.T.? Use the citizen money in order to freedom their life. for what.
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ReplyDeleteamirah abdullah: agree..corruption is the major problem in administration.it will hinder the development as the responsibility and authority given is not properly used.people will do anything for their own benefit, including misuse the power.development programs implemented fail to fulfill the aspiration of the people and only give benefit to certain group or individual.
ReplyDeletein term of values and beliefs,I choose North Korea as the example..North Korea is practicing Closed-door Policy..
All sources of media, such as radio, television, and news organizations, are controlled by the regime and heavily censored. North Korea is ranked second to last on the World Press Freedom Index. Reported human rights abuses include arbitrary and lengthy imprisonment, torture and degrading treatment, poor prison conditions, public executions, prohibitions or severe restrictions on freedom of speech, the press, movement, assembly, religion, and privacy, denial of the right of citizens to change their government, and suppression of workers’ rights. government controls everything and the right of people is ignored.to me, it will suffer and oppress the people.
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