Describe and analyze an issue related to International Trade or Globalization which haspositively or negatively impacted the economy ofa country or regionof your choosing in the past or in the present.

To address the questions, research must be done. It is important that factual information be provided so as to provide an accurate description.

You should include all of the following in your text, but can choose to incorporate additional information so as to provide a more complete response:

Informational Introduction

• Very briefly describe the country or region of your choice.
• Focus on that country's or on that region's trade patterns with one or many of its important trade partner(s). You must usestatistical dataand factual information to address this question.

TheoreticalQuestion

• You must integrateat least two economic conceptsacquired in this class toexplain how the country or the region that you chose was positively or negatively impacted by trade.You can use graphs or equations to relate the theory that you chose.

NormativeQuestion

You may address the following, but can decide to address more questions:

• "What are the specific positive or negative impact(s) of international trade or ofglobalization on the country or region that you chose?"
• "Which group is particularly affected bytrade?"