What are the three main reasons why development is held back in Latin America?

What will be an ideal response?


Three factors stand out as delaying development in Latin America. First, there is a lack of large-scale land reform. Second, there is a relative lack of primary education, particularly for people living in rural or urban slum areas. Third, paternalistic and clientelist cultures in Latin America in which family and fraternal ties suffocate initiative and entrepreneurship hold back development.

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