Task: You are a member of the Economic Development Board of a country of your choice. Your country follows the international trade path of development and you are in charge of promoting your country in order to attract investors in ONE area of your choice:
a. tourism
b. electronics manufacturing
c. clothes manufacturing
d. restaurant franchise
e. educational services
In order to attract the investors you are supposed to prepare an investors' brochure (it should contain multiple pages but at least 1 page of written text total + visuals) explaining why your city/ region/ country is the best place to invest in.
Start by conducting a research on the following:
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a) Gross domestic product, GDP
b) Gross national product, GNP
c) Per capita income
d) Primary sector industries
e) Secondary sector industries
f) Tertiary sector industries
g) Life expectancy & mortality rate
h) Population density
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i) HDI and its components
j) Urbanization
k) Literacy rate
l) Access to health care
m) Tourism industry
n) Population characteristics
o) GII
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For your brochure, you have to find out and focus only on the features that will make your city/ region/ country attract the investor you have chosen. Remember that this depends on the type of investor (a particular feature may be drawback for one type of investor but may be an advantage for another). Your aim is to be able to convince the investors to choose your country; thus you have to gather strong arguments based on your research.