Which barrier to economic development is shown in the following examples? i. the high rate of hiv infection in underdeveloped nations ii. the use of children as soldiers in uganda’s army in the early 2000s iii. low literacy rates in underdeveloped nations with limited exposure to adequate education a. foreign debt b. political instability c. widespread disease d. low levels of social welfare

low levels of social welfare

Economic development is linked to social development, since the population provides the labor force, one of the inputs involved in production. If the country does not have good indexes of human and social development, this becomes a barrier to economic development.

In this sense, a country where there is exploitation of child labor, high levels of infection such as HIV and low literacy rates can not produce skilled labor to develop its economy.

i would go with the last one