ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT This assignment is a report on a country’s development process and current development status

Tips for assignment 2
Use the first paragraph as an executive summary stating your assessment of the country’s development process and your main findings supporting it (not as a historical account of the country)
Your main goal should be showing me you can support your argument with concepts you learned in class, not concepts you got from a Google search or Wikipedia: the more class concepts you touch upon, the more points you get
Make your arguments in comparison to a group of peer countries

Tips for assignment 2
To assess economic growth progress use GDP per capita at constant prices (not aggregate GDP or current prices)
Those numbers are in an Excel file I posted on Canvas: Real GDP per capita 1960-2014
To assess the evolution of education outcomes, use (at least 2) measures like enrollment rates, completion rates, literacy rates or education expenditures as a share of GDP. These (and other) variables are in the World Bank’s World Development Indicators that I posted on Canvas.

Tips for assignment 2
One simple way of conveying the country’s GDP growth is through a chart with its GDP per capita compared to peer countries

GDP per capita (2011 $US)

Malaysia 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2594.1753417418272 2514.6070328509245 2557.3938661118068 2589.7625113763938 2671.111721515425 2850.1372046046799 2917.5214590498435 2860.1000601105297 2870.2954446321041 3076.4753322954743 3169.466927527315 3731.1794680514663 3879.118454016028 4648.9543778411726 5059.0633245204326 4717.9099586274351 5511.3277407198848 5889.7734901834237 6032.6917044574775 6644.9869646507932 7030.8783429772675 6894.0529868175054 7038.2953635571976 7340.7879549749396 7988.7383808150707 7433.1648200939599 6602.2978569473971 7004.0181511359906 7480.2799823299947 7810.5048569881492 8232.9626408557378 8734.4729055600983 9271.0069019562925 9973.4054703061756 10729.476620103582 11654.927644490277 12582.821709034542 13049.148826412174 12154.842804818007 12699.321047389012 13391.591285864404 12921.408358434399 13434.455792249948 14216.939964791303 15174.989112596048 16181.877508031828 17000.03913292928 17920.338705739079 19543.357220771573 18648.578837502613 19813.908053130392 21139.080484107883 21817.788972756476 22263.835240227072 23158.054042343727 Thailand 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 1118.4370953067241 1158.8444446328685 1175.1802334701363 1214.863764641201 1285.5659939891325 1383.2731862319567 1532.9407037291408 1547.5981005311198 1602.2923837761616 1716.1145709046687 2256.7475011599595 2275.5819187052257 2332.0853103933568 2533.9042960546044 2506.619779792014 2519.625242772202 2707.2620697065649 2894.2980863295525 3119.4926564569896 3205.5773565245945 3227.1607823730242 3319.9226661109005 3408.0815436987396 3501.367260428241 3684.2046168354923 3777.4113376279088 3838.2730904183791 4044.1594793860927 4375.8814397632077 4697.633149309816 5024.236683556127 5388.3553956934102 5997.0188831765563 6521.9334102159855 7167.7140145661051 7987.5883998351919 8717.0959104079229 8108.663673231669 2 7239.6119162121404 7231.6167620215056 7336.4906193677225 7356.5042965899611 7765.2282659082284 8545.5322976193966 9065.9366029767789 9415.0465991476103 10202.774752190746 11105.447721789567 11437.020654593971 11812.263110599375 13108.994487856598 13631.787962200417 14561.103895784849 14036.204270089371 13967.188277928031 Singapore 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2663.4284786852759 2753.2849042935122 2923.6023274050212 3221.5600828111569 3047.3005184729273 3262.7445984796559 3597.0113203733431 4026.8306959008187 4551.1910561378727 5189.0767863706287 5814.3647316979504 6485.3133883046921 7225.4767868541012 7835.0534949546618 8364.687081911854 8444.5033008190894 8943.1347463760376 9378.1087588165647 10270.366254462031 11218.03281671176 12428.812476341094 13311.762659621761 14357.495184971678 15585.092827672681 16410.266663228787 15483.986808479847 15153.905760087178 16145.301859075367 17228.424520378532 18578.866075101756 20489.62934914136 21704.982813407736 22348.748368327135 24257.173026147881 26031.723694269807 28163.929754338311 29766.726165800206 33029.940283059746 31940.731786190503 34130.189521241853 40145.689022181963 39007.714745614045 41111.043380941766 42340.941868628739 50118.600907837987 56589.553881399108 59682.612901079759 63690.181890789463 61048.636125849313 59965.88314849334 69141.097460681427 71790.486519456274 72620.49619928129 72743.524802641405 72582.994254516321

Tips for assignment 2

To assess the evolution of health outcomes, use (at least 2) measures like life expectancy, infant mortality or share of GDP spent on health. These (and other) variables are in the World Bank’s World Development Indicators that I posted on Canvas.
If you make an assertion like “this country is very dependent on oil” you need to cite your source on a footnote and reference that source in a reference list in the back

Tips for assignment 2
One simple way of conveying data on education and health is to use a table like this:

Use at least 2 indicators for health and two for education
Pay attention to your writing: you are making and supporting an argument
Use the Writing Center resources

Life Expectancy Primary Enrollment rate

1970 2010 1970 2010

Malaysia

Thailand

Singapore