General
1. Form a group of up to four students
2. Choose a team leader
3. Select a country to be the subject of your assignment.
4. The report should be approximately 1,500 words in length
5. The team leader should send an email to the Macroeconomics instructor ([email protected]) containing the names and student ID numbers of the members of your group as well as the name of the chosen country.
6. If you cannot find a group, contact the instructor asap.
Question 1
What is the current macroeconomic situation of your chosen country?
Question 2
What are two major macroeconomic problems in this country and what is the main cause of each problem?
Question 3
What can the government (or other domestic entity) do to solve each of these problems?
Tips:
- An excellent source of material is The CIA World Factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world¬factbook/
- Consider such variables as:
- GDP (PPP basis)
- per capita income
- growth of GDP
- ratio of work force to total population
- employment and unemployment
- inflation
- income distribution
- exports and imports
- size of government (expenditure as a share of GDP)
- public debt
- Use a comparator such as the world economy, India or the United States