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Presentation Guidelines

 * Presentation Groups
 * Date:
 * A groups: Feb 4
 * B groups: Feb 11
 * C groups: Feb 18
 * Length: 5 minutes, plus 5 minutes for questions
 * Materials: Other than speaking, your group may use the blackboard or provide handouts.
 * Topic: The growth experience of your assigned region.
 * Provide a brief introduction to your region of some kind. (e.g. current events)
 * Compare the current GDP per capita and economic growth history (especially since 1960) of your region to the U.S. and/or other relevant comparison regions.
 * What specific factor(s) are most important in explaining the pattern of economic growth of your region? (See Sections 4.4, 5.8-9, and 6.3 for some starting points.)
 * Connect your explanation to the textbook's discussion of economic growth in Chs 3-6. (But feel free to discuss factors not mentioned in the textbook as well.)
 * Each person in the group must, at a minimum, describe how their assigned country fits in the overall pattern of regional economic growth.
 * Wiki: Each region has its own wiki page, below.
 * **Required to be completed at the time of presentation:** Each student is responsible for filling in the row of the "Key Stats" table for her designated country before the time of her presentation. You can find all the data needed under "Resources" below. (Note: When data is not available for your country's statistic, simply fill that box with three dashes to indicate this: ---. When data (for I/Y or g) is only available for part of the relevant time period (1980-2007 or 1960-2007, respectively), use the years of data that are available and make a footnote explaining this data limitation beneath the table. Likewise if 2007 data is not available for Pop, GDP/Pop, etc. but some earlier recent year is available.)
 * Providing these numbers sooner will benefit your classmates also preparing to present on that region. (You are encouraged to help each other calculate these numbers and check each other's work.)
 * (Optional) You are encouraged to share your research and ideas in the "Discussion" part of your region's wiki page. It is designed to facilitate groups sharing the work of research both within groups and across groups in different discussion sections.
 * Make it interesting for your classmates. Be creative!

Regions

 * United States and Canada
 * Central America and the Carribean
 * South America
 * Northern Europe
 * Southern Europe
 * North Africa
 * West Africa
 * Central Africa
 * East Africa
 * Southern Africa
 * Former Soviet States
 * Middle East
 * South Asia
 * East Asia
 * Southeast Asia
 * Oceania

Resources
//Please add other resources you find that are helpful for this project.// 
 * Key Stats
 * [|Country Snapshots] compiled by Chad Jones. Click on the "data" links at the top of each page to find the numbers in spreadsheet form.
 * [[file:K-Y ratios.xls]]: Capital-to-output ratios for each country, where available. (Hint: Use this together with data on current GDP per capita to calculate capital per capita (K/Pop)? Note: You must then divide by the US capital per capita ($136,000 per person) to calculate //k//. Or just use the automatic calculator at the bottom of this page.)
 * Tips for calculating key stats:
 * See Canada for a sample of the correct numbers. (See Tables 4.3 and 4.4 for more examples for the Chapter 4 numbers.)
 * Check Figure 3.7, Figure 4.7, and Figure 5.3 in the textbook to see if your numbers match with your country's position in the figures.
 * What factors are affecting your country's growth?
 * The [|opening chapter] of Rodrik's book //In Search of Prosperity// provides a helpful guide to thinking about country case studies.
 * [|Diagnostics before Prescription], by Dani Rodrik - provides more detail and some examples. There is also a list of articles on 20-30 different countries using this approach here: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/drodrik/GrowthDiag.html
 * The Wikipedia articles for countries and regions are a good place to start learning about their history - they also have lots of links to more legit sources.
 * Try a search in [|Google Scholar] for your country's name and "economic growth."
 * General
 * [|Helpful guide to economics sources]

K/Y to k Calculator
Click the "click to edit" button in the top right. Then change the bold numbers to the appropriate numbers for your country. (The example shown is Canada.) Note: To find **k^1/3** to put in the table, you still need to raise the //k// calculated below to the 1/3 power. media type="custom" key="8221926"