Title: Assignment 4A
Course: 383-303-FD-55-01 • International Economics > Section: Devoirs

Before carrying out your fourth assignment, you must have completed Lessons 12 and 13 of the Textbook as well as the related exercises.

To answer the questions in this assignment, you must first choose one country from each of the following pairs:
First pair of countries: THAILAND or INDONESIA
Second pair of countries: NIGER or MOZAMBIQUE

All questions in this assignment pertain to both countries you choose.

As it is not always easy to find recent data for a developing country, relative data dating back as far as five years will be accepted.

This assignment requires you to carry out research. Here is some information that you might find very useful for your research.

To find relevant articles on the Internet, use a good search engine (e.g., Bing, Google or Ask.com), using key words such as name of country, economy, market conditions, growth, GDP, GNP, economic policies, foreign trade, and so on.

The World Bank, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the departments of foreign affairs and international trade for Canada and the US and newspapers regularly publish analyses on the countries, and in particular on developing countries.

The book World Development Report, published annually by the World Bank, is also useful and available online and in university libraries. It contains valuable analyses on developing countries and includes statistical tables on them.

The following are a few relevant websites:

www.worldbank.org

www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca

www.monde-diplomatique.fr (in French only)

www.courrierinternational.com (in French only)

This assignment consists of seven essay questions and should take approximately three hours to complete.

It will be corrected out of 100 points and will count for 15% of your overall evaluation.

Don't forget that the assignments are preparation for the exam. Do not hesitate to refer to Lessons 12 and 13 of the Textbook and to the online Workbook.

A few suggestions:

Read the instructions and questions carefully before answering.

Take some time to organize your answers before starting to write.

Reread your answers to check for sentence structure and spelling.

Good luck!

Note: In compliance with the Politique institutionnelle d'évaluation des apprentissages (PIEA) in effect at Cégep@distance, marks on this assignment will be reduced by up to 10% for poor language quality (0.5% per error). Except for spelling errors, marks will be deducted for repeated mistakes.