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The writing assignment for this class involves choosing a developing country and analyzing its recent growth experience from the standpoint of the growth models studied in class

Find the recent growth data and other economic indicators for your country. You can do this by searching for “World Development Indicators” (which I found at http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/worlddevelopment-indicators), then click on “Databank”. There you can select your country, the variables you are interested in [GDP per capita (PPP, constant $), GDP per capita growth, Gross capital formation (% of GDP), School enrollment (primary or secondary, net), etc.], and the years you are interested in (as many as possible). You can click on “Chart” to view the data, which can then be saved as a picture or pdf; or click on “Download” to save to Excel and create your own analysis and chart.

Please find these four things in website witch in the second paragraphy GDP per capita (PPP, constant $), GDP per capita growth, Gross capital formation (% of GDP), School enrollment (primary or secondary, net),

Find out these four pictures and put in the essay

Write a short paper, no more than 1000 words (excluding words in graph and graph caption), describing the development trajectory of your country in terms of its economic growth over the last several decades (for which you have data), and discussing how well the data seem to fit the growth theory learned in class. Specifically, does the relationship between investment rates in physical and human capital and growth rates fit the theories’ predictions? Here’s what the paper should include:

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b. A graph of the relevant data.

c. An explanation of how investment rates in physical and human capital are related to economic growth and development in general, according to the growth theory learned in class.

d. A discussion of how well the growth theory learned in class fits the specific country being analyzed.

e. For extra consideration: Is there another variable, from outside the theory learned in class, that correlates better with growth in your country? If so, show it on the graph, and discuss why this variable may correlate better with growth in this case

Grading Rubric: 20 – Grammar, spelling, overall clarity 25 – Graph labelled, clear, containing required elements 25 – Discussion of growth theory in general 30 – Application of growth theory to the country chosen 20 – Presentation of other factor behind growth