IS408 Presentation Assignment - Country Analysis §

• Country Case Study

  • Presentation Assignment

• Guidelines: Country Case Study_A4.1.pdf

  • 15 minutes presentation only
  • 1 - 2 members do the presentation
  • Everyone answers Q&A, one question all members have to answer, before moving on

• Country Selection: low/middle income countries only according to World Bank Countries Income Groups

  • Mexico

• Content

  • Brief History: Only include relevant things to what you’re going to talk about. Only things that matter to the development of the country
  • Geography and Climate: how does the advantages or disadvantages from it help or make its development worse
  • Economic Performance: what sector is important.
    • Be specific, not just ‘industry’
  • Poverty figure: 5-10 years.
    • Changes
    • Reasons why it changed that way
  • Education: structure, is the way the government organized it make sense?
    • Access & quality
    • Costs
  • Healthcare:
    • Is there enough infrastructure
    • quality of health
    • Quality of life in general, neutritions
  • Population
    • past ethnic conflicts
    • Who controls natural resources
    • Are there tension between social groups?
    • Birthrate?
    • How having many or few ethnic group affect economic growth. Why?
  • Insitutions
    • Effective law enforcement
    • Intellectual property
    • Monopoly on violence
    • Enough infrastructure to attract FDI
    • Political stability
    • Civil society, voice of community in government
  • What is QLF?

• 1, 2, 8= noby

• 9, 10, 11= rach

• 4, 12= seth

• 3= nak

• 5, 6, 7= resan

  • education, health care, and gender equality

• Deadlines

• 2022-05-17: submission of IS408 Presentation 1st draft in hard copy

• 2022-05-24: submission of IS408 Presentation final draft in hard copy

Tip

• Can rearrange any of the points in whatever order
• Select your own country (by group)
  • Low and middle income countries only
  • Don’t select the same country
• Don’t write too much, don’t make it so complex.
• Presentation
  • 15 minutes presentation
  • Everyone must answer questions
  • 1 or 2 members do presentation, up to 3, not all members
  • Everyone in the group must understand all parts of the assignment
    • One question asked to the group will be answered by all members separately
  • Don’t divide the assignment so separately
• Print hard copy in black and white or in color, which would be better for your assignment
• Everyone ask as many questions as possible to each group for the group to get points

Policy Memo §

• Topic: “trying to improve the economy by focusing on the service sector”
  • in order to do so,
    • we need to improve our education system (investment for the future).
    • We will also look at the participation rate of the women and try to improve the rate of women being part of the economy as well.
• Solution is by improving Mexico’s education system.
  • Why should education be improved?
  • Problems
    • Underfunded
      • Where does government funds go instead?
      • Is it worth reallocating?
    • Why past policies of compulsory upper-secondary education didn’t work?
• Solution is by increasing economic participation rate of women
  • What are the facts? How much women participate?
  • What can be done to increase?

References §

• [[daily/2022-05-03#IS408 Presentation Assignment - Country Analysis|2022-05-03#IS408 Presentation Assignment - Country Analysis]]