Monday April 29

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
Homework:

LDC Report


You will be creating an ongoing visual presentation of your LDC
Using your selected LDC...


• 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