WAC Report

Country Report Task: 

Select a country of preference (excluding United States since we will be discussing this in class). Imagine that you are working as an economic advisor for the government. The president has gathered its cabinet to discuss the economic performance of the country and its future policies. As the economist of the team, you are asked to write a written report on its economic performance and expectations. Critically evaluate its economic performance relying on the material and the concepts covered in our course. Note: The president and his advisors are not acquainted with economics terms. Your report will include the following elements: 

• Description of the current state of economic condition of your selected country or region, based on at least a couple of credible sources, which can be news or scholarly. When preparing this section, indicate the unemployment rate, inflation rate, and where the country is in the business cycle. You should include graphs and tables and rely on your Discussion Forums, as well as instructor and peer review. 

 • Description of forecasts and what is the economic condition expected to be in the next five or ten years. How is that related to the past historical performance (shown in point 1 above)? 

 • Summation of your findings, including at least two policy recommendations for future improvements. You may also include here any findings regarding the current fiscal and/or monetary policy that the country is using. 

 Goal: The goal of the project is to enable you to research, identify and implement the economic parameters and models learnt in this course. 

Deadline and Revision Process: This project has several stages. You will be required to revise this project based on peer response and instructor review. You are expected to follow these instructions in order to edit any grammar and spelling mistakes as well as content and organization. You should always include the prior drafts along with your new submission. 

 Stage 1: Discussion forums [Various – See Blackboard for instructions] 

 Stage 2: Draft 1 Report [April 18] 

 Stage 3: Instructor Review [April 30] 

 Stage 4: Draft 2 for Peer or Instructor Review [May 10] 

 Stage 5: Final Report [May 29] 

 Stage 6: Presentation [May 21 –May 30] – optional – 

 Grading: The grading for Stage 1 will be graded separately on your discussion forum in Blackboard. For details, please refer to the Discussion Forum Rubric. Your drafts will count towards 10% of your total grade. Your final submission will count towards 10% of your total grade. Hence, both draft and final will comprise 20%. For details, please refer to the Country Report Grading Rubric. Please make sure that you have all the drafts, feedback, and revisions in order to get full credit. 

Format: You should use and cite at least five credible published sources to support your positions, arguments. Standard APA style rules apply and clarity is important. Resources on APA Style are: American Psychological Association: Learning APA Style, and or Purdue OWL: General APA Guidelines (see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/). Your country written report should contain proper documentation of the article(s) or other references used. If direct quotes are used (not contained in the article), appropriate footnotes, endnotes, or parenthetical citations must accompany the quotes. 

Length: Between three to five double spaced pages. Papers are graded on quality of content, not quantity. The paper should include the following: 

- Title page 

- Insert page numbers. A Running Head is fine but not necessary. 

- Abstract – not required but recommended 

- Table of Contents – not required but recommended 

- Section Headings – not required, but recommended 

- Citations – cite all references in the body of the text and in the Reference list. 

- Plagiarism – Do not copy text from another author or Web source unless it is cited. 

- Appendices – Not necessary but may be appropriate for raw data. Graphs that you refer to in detail in the text, should be included in the text, not in the appendix.

 Important: Along with the submission of your final country report, you should include all your working papers (drafts), instructor and peer review and feedback. Your final submission will not be graded if the intermediate work is missing.