Thea Farah: Timor-Leste and Mali

Posted by Theodora Farah in Globalization - Laufenberg on

My countries were Timor-Leste and Mali.  Timor-Leste was my country for the election project.  It's a very tiny country that gained independence from Indonesia in 2002, so it's only ten years old.  For the "Global Goods, Local Cost" project, I was put in the Sub-Saharan Africa group and I ended up focusing on gold mining in Mali, so I used that for my other country.  Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world, despite being home to a booming gold mining business.  Originally I was disappointed that I had two developing nations, because I figured they would be quite similar, but they turned out to be different in some respects and it was still quite an interesting project.  I assumed that Mali would be easier to research, because Timor-Leste is such a new and small country, but I found that the country didn't matter as much as the topic.  Finding information about things like environmental damage and climate change was easy for both countries, but it was harder to find information about their relationships with other countries and trading partners.

Using the five-point framework was generally straightforward, although there were times when it was hard for me to separate the relevant from the irrelevant information when I was writing, because I'm always tempted to include every piece of information I have.  I think I managed to do it well in the end.  I do wish the whole piece was a little nicer looking, though.  I think if I could do it again, I would make it more professional-looking.

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