Please check into with me at 8:05AM on Wednesday and Thursday. I'll give you a pass and you may read these article in the LC.
Take the evening off, you can work on these tomorrow.
Let's start with The Economist, because uses economic theory to analyze the problem.
To structure your research task, think of Pakistan as a bowl of goldfish.
1. You need to find out how some of the goldfish were affected by an exogenous event. In bullet points, list the facts necessary to understand the immediate problem confronting the Pakistanis affected by the monsoon flooding.;
1.2 million homes damaged or destroyed
800,000 people still cut off from all help
Huge crops of wheat destroyed (23% destroyed)
Thousands of livestock killed
Hunger and disease threaten to kill thousands more people.
2. How does this event affect the water in the bowl and the fish that are not directly impacted by the flood. In other words, you need to set up the context of the problem. What do we need to know about the culture, economy, foreign relations, demographics, geography, etc. List this information in bullet points.
25% of Pakistani GDP is agriculture, meaning everyone in the country, will suffer the consequences economic decay.
Foreign aid has been dismal, far less than other natural disasters in recent memory
The country lacks an economic welfare system
"Inept officials" are taking far too long to deal with the crisis
Even those not directly impacted will face the possibility of hunger a result of the lack of crops
Pakistan national debt is mounting to nearly 74 billion by 2014
Islam dominates the lives of most Pakistani people, which must be taken into account when developing a plan.
hierarchical Society, so one must be careful about offending the "wise" members of the population
Pakistani people prefer to work with people they know, and people of their own kind
Please check into with me at 8:05AM on Wednesday and Thursday. I'll give you a pass and you may read these article in the LC.
Take the evening off, you can work on these tomorrow.
Let's start with The Economist, because uses economic theory to analyze the problem.
http://www.economist.com/node/16889663?story_id=16889663&CFID=141989997&CFTOKEN=51664885
http://www.economist.com/node/16846266?story_id=16846266
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2010/0831/Pakistan-flood-waters-recede-but-country-s-debt-rises
To structure your research task, think of Pakistan as a bowl of goldfish.
1. You need to find out how some of the goldfish were affected by an exogenous event. In bullet points, list the facts necessary to understand the immediate problem confronting the Pakistanis affected by the monsoon flooding.;
2. How does this event affect the water in the bowl and the fish that are not directly impacted by the flood. In other words, you need to set up the context of the problem. What do we need to know about the culture, economy, foreign relations, demographics, geography, etc. List this information in bullet points.