Country Study Assignment
1. Choose a country. Each person in the class must choose a foreign
country and become the class expert on its international monetary relations. There are more than enough countries in the
world to choose from, so only one student in the class per country, and only
one student in each group per continent or region.
Here are some suggestions.
Western Europe and Offshoots: Belgium,
France, Germany, Italy,
Netherlands, Norway, Sweden,
Switzerand, United
Kingdom, Ireland,
Spain, Australia, Canada
Latin American countries:
Argentina, Brazil, Chile,
Colombia, Mexico, Peru,
Uruguay, Venezuela, Ecuador,
Guatemala
East Asian countries:
China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan,
Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
African countries: Algeria, Botswana,
Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire), Egypt,
Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius,
Morocco, Nigeria, Seychelles,
South Africa
There are also countries you can choose in central and
eastern Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean,
et cetera. Each student must e-mail me at eparker@unr.edu to get approval, and if I do
not approve your choice I will suggest an alternative. Act fast: popular countries are chosen quickly.
2. Look for statistical
sources for your country. With
your
group, go to the library’s reference desk and find the
statistical reports of
the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the
World Bank,
and the United Nations to make sure your country reports its
statistical data
to these organizations. Back issues of these reports are
available on the second floor of the library, and you should
familiarize yourself with what is available. Some of these data may also be available online. Also go online to see if your country makes its own official statistics available. IQuiz 4Country f the data available is inadequate, you should contact me to change
countries.
Data should be available for at least the last
ten years, and preferably more. You will need to know information
about your countries' trade balance, financial account, exchange rate,
interest rates, money supply, price inflation, and GDP (total and per
capita).
You
might want to go directly to your country's government website (or that of its central bank) to see
what you can find there. There are a few examples and other websites
listed on my homepage at
http://www.coba.unr.edu/faculty/parker/index.html#data.
3. Turn in a one-page
proposal on the due date, with the country you chose, the date I
approved it by e-mail, and the sources you will use for data. Also include the dates for which you can find complete and consistent data.
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