Answer the following questions from the perspective of the United States:

1. Provide information regarding your country or region's agricultural vs. industrial activities. (Many emerging economies have moved away from agricultural and resource extraction focused activities toward industrial and manufacturing activities. Their governments have pursued industrial and trade strategies, privatization, and begun to embrace global competition. They have adopted more market-oriented policies, and will continue on the path of reforms as shown by increased liquidity in local debt and equity, increased trade volume, and foreign direct investment, and the domestic development of modern financial and regulatory institutions.

2. Provide information regarding your country or region's investment practices. (The main categories of investment are non-residential fixed investments in such things such as new machinery and factories, and human capital investment in workforce education and health, and inventory investment. Note, in calculating GDP, Investment does not refer to the purchase of stocks and bonds or the trading of financial assets.)

3. Provide information regarding your country or region's productivity growth rate and growth in manufacturing. (Include factors and incentives and actions that could foster productivity and incentives for investment. Continued success and growth will depend on the ability to improve productivity, adapting to new technologies, which in turn for many of these emerging economies will require institutional reforms, which potentially can pose political challenges.)