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What is Starbucks' retail strategy? What is its target market, and how does it try to develop an advantage over its competitors?
For a single price monopolist, what is the profit maximizing output? For a single price monopolist, what is the profit maximizing price per unit?
Explain what could cause such a deficit on the current account. What might be happening to official foreign exchange reserves? Explain.
What part or parts of a country's balance of payments accounts might provide an alert that there is the potential for crisis? Explain.
Summarize what is known about the potential for spillovers or technological transfers arising from FDI.
Your task is to compose a Code of Conduct which the TNC will impose on its subcontractors in the future. What rules would you include?
Construct a chart listing the potential effects of inward direct foreign investment on developing nations.
What percentage of world exports is currently produced by less-developed countries? You can find this data at UNCTAD website in the annual book of statistics.
How much of economic growth has been intensive and how much extensive? What does the TFP value you have calculated mean?
Given these figures, calculate the annual rate of total factor productivity (TFP) for the Malawi economy.
Calculate Lebanon's average TFP over this period. Has Lebanon had extensive and/or intensive economic growth?
Why would be likely to contribute to helping an economy create a national technological capacity or ITLC.
What is factor displacement? How can MNCs cause factor displacement? Would this be more or less likely to occur if an economy had already created an ITLC?
Why economically and politically powerful elites in some less-developed countries. In what sectors of an economy might one expect to find supporters of an ITLC?
Why are domestic entrepreneurs, domestic capitalists, and domestic scientists and engineers so important to the development process?
Distinguish between an ITLC and an ITCC. What is required for an economy to have an ITCC?
What role does government policy play in creating these conditions and in augmenting an economy's initial endowments that might make technological acquisition.
Why would you expect to find per capita income differences among nations persisting over time? Why, or why not?
Can you find evidence of pro-poor growth in a nation undertaking a PRSP, or in any other nation? If so, what conditions were necessary to produce this outcome?
Find an NGO involved with aid on the web. To what degree do the policies and programs of this NGO conform to the material presented?
Why are small northern European nations the largest aid contributors with the highest ratings in terms of the quality of their aid programs?
Evaluate nation's PRSP in terms of the critique offered by those who are convinced that the PRSP is an inadequate strategy for the development of poor nations.
How might a structural adjustment loan lead to new burdens being placed upon the environment of the nation?
Based on your reading of this chapter, identify five major public misconceptions regarding foreign aid.
How will you attempt to bargain with the IMF in order that your nation is adequately represented?