Task: A manufacturing organization considering expansion to India or Brazil.
Prepare a 500 word paper in which you relate the international flow of goods, services, and capital to the balance of payments and domestic economic behavior. Address the following:
1. Relate various balance of payments accounts to fluctuations of the exchange rates of the proposed countries over the time period.
Use the Internet to research balance of payments data. Use the following resources to research data related to the international flow of goods, services, and capital, and international economic and political conditions:
o U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis
o Economic Research Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
o International Trade Administration
o World Bank Group
o U.S. Census Bureau
o International Monetary Fund
o U.S. Commercial Service
The assignment makes reference to the company considering both countries as options for expansion. So they are looking to expand either into India or Brazil. I believe the assignment is essentially a comparison between the two.
You can probably get the historical exchange rates for both countries "over a 3-5 year period on a quarterly basis", and use that to write about how the exchange rate relates to "the international flow of goods, services, and capital to the balance of payments and domestic economic behavior".