Country Report paper (individual assignment) Assignment: You are to prepare a co

Country Report paper (individual assignment)
Assignment: You are to prepare a country report for a developing country (list of developing countries) of your choosing. The country report will provide information about the challenges faced in this country if foreign direct investment is to take place. What is the business environment in general and/or in a specific industry. Assume you are preparing a report for upper management who are considering entering the market in your chosen country. You should use any of the ideas/concepts reviewed in class (import substitution strategy, debt, financial crisis, poverty, unemployment, trade, etc.). In particular, use the ideas in Acemoglu & Robinson’s book “Why Nations Fail” to describe or anticipate the challenges facing anyone entering this developing country’s market. Chapters from this book will be read during the course so as you read it think of ways to apply the ideas to your paper.
The style should be APA. The format should be 8×11 page with one-inch margin. Use Times Roman 12, 1 ½ spaced and make your paper about 10-12 pages long in length. Assignments longer than indicated will face a penalty and the likelihood that I will NOT read beyond the limit. If your work is “too long”, summarize, synthetize, tighten your arguments. If your assignment is “too short”, then more information is probably needed. Use endnotes and quotations when you are borrowing ideas from others. The paper will be run through SafeAssign.
Deadline: August 1st.
Structure of the Country Report:
I. Background Information: Your country report should include a short and brief basic background information (one slide) listed below. You should try to obtain current data and data from the last few years. Examples of some useful information are:
Indicators of the level of development: PPP gdp per capita income, HDI, poverty index, measures of inequality, etc.
Macroeconomic indicators: GDP level and growth rate, inflation,
unemployment levels.
Structure of the economy: sectoral output/employment, major industries (their share in output), three major imports/exports, importance in international trade.
II. Information of Industry to enter/invest: What is relevant for a decision to enter this market? Examples of key points: Market size, population, purchasing power, domestic or foreign competitors? Any alliances with local industry? Produce and export? Produce locally? Use a license agreement? Skilled labor? Wages? Labor market? trade liberalization, free trade agreements, state intervention, foreign direct investment policy, tax on repatriation? How do relations with the US around this sector/ issue affect this country’s business environment? What are the main institutions you will deal with in this country? What does Acemoglu and Robinson say about the challenges to be encountered in developing nations?
III. Recommendation/Conclusion: Based on your presentation make a recommendation as to how to best enter this market and deal with the challenges encountered. What would you recommend for a successful presence in this country?
In general, I will look for the following:
The first paragraph should include a summary of what the paper is going to be about. Use subheadings throughout the paper to guide the reader about the basic structure of your paper.
Support or provide documentation for your claims. Provide the sources of figures/tables/facts and support your assertions. If someone else said it originally, then credit that individual. Failure to credit others for their ideas, information, or data constitutes plagiarism and is subject to disciplinary action. If you are making your own personal claims, use data or other references to support your claims.
A conclusion or summary. Don’t simply stop writing after you have reached your x page goal. A research paper should not have a cliffhanger ending. Give your reader a sense of closure and conclude your thoughts/ideas. Put your argument in perspective by giving some sort of summary which recaps the major issues and key points that led to you to come to your conclusion.
Final Paper: Your final paper should include: one, a cover page with a title and author; two, the main text, and threea page at the end with the Reference List. Only the main text count for the page count.