Assignment
Choose any country in the world. You will conduct a macroeconomic assessment of their current macroeconomic conditions. Use any necessary sources of data available.1 Your assessment should cover all the various types of analysis that you have learned throughout the semester—possibly includ- ing, but not limited to:
• An analysis of the optimality of their savings rate
•An analysis of their long-run growth prospects
• An analysis of the sustainability of their debt
• An analysis of money supply
• An analysis of inflation
• An analysis of policies related to investment
• An analysis of their business cycle
Your analysis should be no more than 1500 words and should be concisely written. This assignment draws heavily on the work that you should have done during in our tutorials throughout the semester. I expect you to be well-versed in the types of analytical work we have done in our tutorials; I there- fore expect a high quality of analysis. Your writing must be clear,2 and any mathematical analysis or calculations must be concisely presented.3
• Interpret public and policy debate about macroeconomic issues
• Calculate quantitative indicators using macroeconomic theories
• Produce policy recommendations based on available data
• Apply macroeconomic theories to explain historical and current phenomena