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.
I want you to mine the CountryWatch database for information. This a an LC database. Username: arlington13, password: germany
Click on the news archives for question 1.
Look to the left hand side for information for question 2.
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.
-100s of deaths, but economic impact is greater
-Enormous damage to crops threatens the large agricultural industry; particularly wheat and cotton crops suffered major damage
-High livestock casualties pose a similar threat; between these, many people are left unemployed and broke
-What crop did remain is being slowly destroyed or damaged by water runoff that is still occurring
-"The devastation caused by the floods is going to hit revenue collection and increase expenditure,"*
-"Damage to crops and livestock will certainly worsen food inflation in coming months, and hit the textile and sugar industries, which in turn may hit trade balance and overall national growth,"*
-Hundreds of thousands of homes have been destroyed; displaced people are being forced into urban centers like Punjab and Sindh, where overcrowding is occurring
-Disease and lack of sanitation are concerns as a result of this mass exodus; starvation is also prominent
-Businesses typically dependent on selling their products locally suffer due to lack of money in the economy amongst the affected
-Many exporters also saw crop damage or loss; thus, the economy is stagnating in a sense
-Inflation and unemployment may both be up as a result
-International aid is difficult to receive due to international tensions about terrorist groups
-Tourism is down due to the monsoons
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.
-Agriculture accounts for 25 percent of GDP -Budget continually in deficit; poor govt infrastructure, tax collection services, high defense spending, etc... -Despite this, high GDP growth had been present until 2007; result of FDI. -After this, a spike in food and oil prices and adverse security developments hurt macroeconomic conditions -Corporate sector of Pakistan declined in the mid 2000s due to lowering of ratings of the KSE (Karachi Stock Exchange) -Pakistani middle class has grown in recent years -Poor welfare system, high population growth, and high immigration levels contribute to persistence of poverty, but relief programs have been established in recent years. -The 1990s saw significant operation of an underground economy; however, better organized taxation and business laws have recently provided incentive to eliminate this.
-Industries and services are overtaking agriculture as the driving force of the economy
-Fun fact: Pakistan is renowned for export of quality soccer balls.
-Militarily, Pakistan is presently engaged with Islamic extremists (terrorists) in the NW part of the nation
-Immigrants as a result of the War on Terror in Afghanistan come to Pakistan.
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.
I want you to mine the CountryWatch database for information. This a an LC database. Username: arlington13, password: germany
http://www.countrywatch.com/cw_country.aspx?vcountry=131
Click on the news archives for question 1.
Look to the left hand side for information for question 2.
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.
-100s of deaths, but economic impact is greater
-Enormous damage to crops threatens the large agricultural industry; particularly wheat and cotton crops suffered major damage
-High livestock casualties pose a similar threat; between these, many people are left unemployed and broke
-What crop did remain is being slowly destroyed or damaged by water runoff that is still occurring
-"The devastation caused by the floods is going to hit revenue collection and increase expenditure,"*
-"Damage to crops and livestock will certainly worsen food inflation in coming months, and hit the textile and sugar industries, which in turn may hit trade balance and overall national growth,"*
-Hundreds of thousands of homes have been destroyed; displaced people are being forced into urban centers like Punjab and Sindh, where overcrowding is occurring
-Disease and lack of sanitation are concerns as a result of this mass exodus; starvation is also prominent
-Businesses typically dependent on selling their products locally suffer due to lack of money in the economy amongst the affected
-Many exporters also saw crop damage or loss; thus, the economy is stagnating in a sense
-Inflation and unemployment may both be up as a result
-International aid is difficult to receive due to international tensions about terrorist groups
-Tourism is down due to the monsoons
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.
-Agriculture accounts for 25 percent of GDP
-Budget continually in deficit; poor govt infrastructure, tax collection services, high defense spending, etc...
-Despite this, high GDP growth had been present until 2007; result of FDI.
-After this, a spike in food and oil prices and adverse security developments hurt macroeconomic conditions
-Corporate sector of Pakistan declined in the mid 2000s due to lowering of ratings of the KSE (Karachi Stock Exchange)
-Pakistani middle class has grown in recent years
-Poor welfare system, high population growth, and high immigration levels contribute to persistence of poverty, but relief programs have been established in recent years.
-The 1990s saw significant operation of an underground economy; however, better organized taxation and business laws have recently provided incentive to eliminate this.
-Industries and services are overtaking agriculture as the driving force of the economy
-Fun fact: Pakistan is renowned for export of quality soccer balls.
-Militarily, Pakistan is presently engaged with Islamic extremists (terrorists) in the NW part of the nation
-Immigrants as a result of the War on Terror in Afghanistan come to Pakistan.