• Highlight ideas or concepts linked to international trade in this week's reading that you would like to learn more about or investigate further. These could include absolute and comparative advantage, specialization and learning, opportunity costs and net international trade deficits or gains.

• Select two of the 10 brainstorming points on the current state of a country's economy and how it can work towards sustainable and equitable growth.

• In two paragraphs of 150 minimum words each (150 minimum words for each of the two points you selected in Step 2 -- 300 minimum words total; you can exceed 300 total words without losing marks), explain the role international trade plays in the relationship between your brainstorming point, your country's current economy and it's future economic outlook.

• For example: if your selected country was South Korea and one of your brainstorming points was global partnerships for sustained growth, one of your paragraphs for this assignment might look at how South Korea's leverages its comparative advantage in technology in international trade through global partnerships.

• As part of your response, you may need to conduct some light research using OECD, the World Bank website, the World Factbook