This assignment is due by 9:30 a.m. on November 28.  You should paste your answer into the "Country Analyses" topic area on our WEBCT Bulletin Board so everyone can read it.  You may also post it as an assignment in the assignment dropbox, in which case I can give you a grade and comments online.

Your Name:

Name of Country:

1.  Which political issues are most critical in this country today?

2.  What positions are being taken on these issues by the leading political parties or groups?

3.  Which of the four strategies described in the reading on "Poverty and Development in Developing Nations" is this country following in its relationship to the global economy?  Or is it following some mixture of strategies or some other strategy?

4.  What do the writers for The Economist think of the strategies the country is following?

5.  What is your opinion of the strategies the country is following?