Part 1:
Write a 1,050-1,750-word paper in which you do the following:
• Identify the roles major international financial organizations play in your selected regional trading blocs.
• Analyze the options for trade finance and foreign direct investment within the selected blocs in accordance with the financial institutions rules and policies.
• Analyze the major foreign exchange challenges that exist in your selected regional trading blocs.
Select an appropriate strategy to manage finance risk for each of your selected regional trading blocs. What components of international economics and finance theory are reflected in your strategy?
Part 2:
Write a 1,050-1,750-word paper in which you do the following:
• Identify barriers to trade in your selected regional trading blocs.
• Identify advantages and disadvantages of being a member of your selected regional trading blocs. Identify membership conditions for your selected regional trading blocs and determine whether these will have a positive or negative impact on the bilateral or multilateral relations with the United States.
• Assess the costs of compliance and non-compliance with regional trading bloc rules and regulations.
• Analyze the impact of trade transactions among member countries, non-member countries, and other trade blocs. How could this potentially impact your expansion project?
Based on your analysis, select the regional trading bloc that affords the best opportunity for your expansion project.
Part 3:
Take sides on whether free trade, and the globalization that results, is beneficial. Cite at least one pro globalization example and one con globalization example.
• Describe the key models and sources of international economic development.
• From benchmarking research, identify key success factors for international development projects as applied to manufacturing.
• Analyze key opportunities and constraints for Riordan arising from international economic development.