MACROECONOMICS ASSIGNMENT -
General:
1. Form a group of up to four students
2. Choose a team leader
3. Select a country to be the subject of your assignment. (country for report is INDIA)
4. The report should be approximately 1,500 words in length
Question 1: What is the current macroeconomic situation of your chosen country?
Question 2: What are two major macroeconomic problems in this country and what is the main cause of each problem?
Question 3: What can the government (or other domestic entity) do to solve each of these problems?
Tips:
An excellent source of material is The CIA World Fact book https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Consider such variables as:
- GDP (PPP basis)
- per capita income
- growth of GDP
- ratio of work force to total population
- employment and unemployment
- inflation
- income distribution
- exports and imports
- size of government (expenditure as a share of GDP)
- public debt
Use a comparator such as the world economy, India or the United States.