Assignment:
Participation Expectations.
In order to be eligible for the maximum score on this graded activity, the initial response to the discussion questions must be at least 200 words and be suitably supported (citations) with material from our our assigned textbook readings. Subsequent comments to other students must "add value" to the discussion and should be approximately 100 words each in order to be considered "substantive" and therefore eligible for the maximum score
APA FORMATTING NOT NEEDED
: Please keep the two post separate
Discussion Post #:1
Foreign Direct Investment
Imagine you are in charge of development for a developing country and were approached by a multinational corporation interested in locating in your country.
Identify some of the benefits and some of the costs to the host country from allowing a multinational corporation to locate in a country with a developing economy. Discuss with your classmates if developmental assistance from world developmental agencies, such as the World Bank or the United Nations, would be preferable to private investment.
Reference: Chapter 17, section 17.5: Help From The Private Sector: Multinationals.
Guided Response: Review several of your classmates' posts and respond to at least two of them. In your reply, discuss how the concerns listed in their posts regarding private foreign investment could be alleviated through aide from world development agencies.
Carefully review the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate this Discussion Thread.
Respond
Discussion Post # 2:
Economies in Transition
The movement in the direction of a market-based system with freely determined prices, competition, profits, private ownership, and other features of capitalism is not simple. Discuss some of the challenges associated with an economy transitioning from socialism to capitalism.
Reference: Chapter 20, section 20.1: World Economic Systems, and section 20.2: Transition to a Market System.
Guided Response: Review several of your classmates' posts. Respond to at least two of your peers by discussing the benefits and the costs of privatization of an economy. Pose questions that may assist your peers in extending their thinking
Carefully review the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate this Discussion Thread.
Respond
Two Separate Discussion Post
Must Complete both and use the classroom text as well