Writing assignment:

Compare the Quality of Life for any two nations (neither of which is the United States) by using the matrix below (or something like it) and explain why you would prefer to live in one more than the other.

indicator 1: Unemployment rate

indicator 2: economic growth rate

indicator 3: Real per-capita GDP ($PPP)

indicator 4: Inflation rate

and four additional indicators with particular significance to how YOU define quality of life.

justify why you would choose one nation over another ( compare nations ).

I provide you here with the most fundamental sources of macroeconomic data that you should use:

Bureau of Labor Statistics Historic CPI data (Choose the top item in the list for 1982-4 as base period, then hit "retrieve". Time series can be extended.) https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?cu(Links to an external site.)

Bureau of Economic Analysis GDP (output) data https://www.bea.gov/national/index.htm#gdp(Links to an external site.)

International Monetary Fund DataMapper http://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDP_RPCH@WEO/OEMDC/ADVEC/WEOWORLD(Links to an external site.) Wide range of macroeconomic data, including debt/GDP ratios, for all the nations of the world.

United Nations Human Development Report for 2016 is available as a pdf document at http://hdr.undp.org/en/2016-report(Links to an external site.) The tables at the end of the report contain comparative macro data, but the significance of the data becomes greater as you read more of the report.

Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development provides a wide range of data on all of their members' macroeconomies athttps://data.oecd.org