New Concepts
- Strategies to help Increase Economic Development
- Trade and protectionist strategies
- Foreign Direct Investment
- Aid
Resources:
- Power Point - Strategies
- List of Developing Countries
Names with countries of choice - If you haven't picked a country yet, look at the list and fill in your choice next to your name
Power Point - Characteristics of Developing Countries
Also includes Diversity among Developing Countries and the Millennial Goals
UN Website - Millennial Development Goals
UN Website - Data Reports
CIA World Factbook- Determine the characteristics that your LDC displays
- Data breakdown
- Population growth rate (Birth Rate)
- Dependency Ratio
- Unemployment data
- Health indicators
- Education Indicators
- GDP, GNI and PPP
- Give a breakdown of your LDC's diversity
- Resources
- Historical background
- Geography and demographics
- Ethnicity and Race
- Structure of Industry (Jobs)
- Per Capita Income levels
- Political structures
- Using the Millennial Goals, determine if your LDC has reached those goals based on 2016 numbers
- Use both single and composite measurements of development to analyze your LDC
- Make sure to compare GDP and GNI and discuss any Foreign Direct Investment in your LDC
- Create a Lorenz Curve for your LDC
- Analyze your LDC's capability of economic development
- domestic barriers of development
- international barriers of development
- What does your country need to help them reach the 17 Sustainable Development Goals?
- Evaluate possible solutions that could help create economic development in your LDC
Homework:
LDC Report
LDC Report
You will be creating an ongoing visual presentation of your LDC
Using your selected LDC...
