Assessment Task:
You are a junior consultant working for an international investment organisation. The firm has some new prospective clients visiting the Head Office in London. Your manager, the Head of International Markets, is very keen to sign the clients but wants to improve their understanding of international trade, finance and investment matters.
You are tasked with writing a comprehensive report on the following:
Finance is considered as the life blood or the engine of growth for international trade and development.
a. Evaluate how the financial markets work to allocate capital within a domestic economy and internationally for trade, investment and development purposes.
b. Using an economy of your choice critically evaluate what are the key challenges that country faces due to industrialisation and trade policies?
Content Template:
1. Title and Content Pages
2. Executive Summary
3. Background of Financial Markets
4. Capital Allocation within Domestic Economy
5. Capital Allocation within International Markets
6. Evaluation of an Economy of your choice
7. Critical Evaluation of Challenges that the country faces due to Industrialization and Trade Policies.
8. Conclusion
9. Recommendations
This is an academic piece of work, you are expected to conduct extensive up-to-date research, critically evaluating the content and appropriately referencing the sources of information used.
Essential Reading
Paul R. Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld, Marc J. Melitz (2014) International economics: theory and policy, 10 edition Pearson Education.
Print ISBNs: PB: 9781292019550, 1292019557
Recommended Reading
Frederic S. Mishkin, Stanley G. Eakins, (2012) Financial markets and institutions, 7th edition, Pearson Education. Print ISBN: 0273754440, 9780273754442
Petros Mavroidis, (2012) Trade in goods: the GATT and the other WTO agreements regulating trade in goods, Oxford. Print ISBN: 9780199657483, 0199657483
John H. Barton, Judith L. Goldstein, Timothy E. Josling, Richard H. Steinberg, (2006) The evolution of the trade regime: politics, law, and economics of the GATT and the WTO, Princeton University PressPrint ISBN: 0691124507, 9780691124506
John P. Lewis, Devesh Kapur, Richard Webb (1997) The World Bank: its first half century, Brookings Institution. Print ISBN: 081575230X, 0815752342