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IS408 Presentation Assignment - Country Analysis §

• IS408 Midterm today

• Country Case Study

  • Presentation Assignment

• 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

• 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
  • Everyone must answer questions
  • 1 or 2 members do presentation
  • 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

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