Focus on GDP per capita as best for policy makers.
at least TWO scholarly articles. To satisfy this requirement, two articles cited must
be published in a peer-reviewed academic journal (you can find a good list here:
https://inomics.com/advice/top-economics-journals-1306599) or be published on one
of the following reputable sites: voxeu.org or
https://www.economicsobservatory.com/. Economists also use discussion papers,
policy briefs, books, or magazine/news articles to inform their research. You can use
these sources for extra references in addition to the required two scholarly articles.
• TWO pieces of data which you will have sourced yourself from a reputable source and
used to produce a diagram/table. Acceptable sources include government and
governmental agencies, NGOs, data produced as part of academic research, and
financial statement data for publicly-listed companies. For example, you may decide to
plot “real wages” and “union strikes” using data from the US Federal Reserve.
However, a screenshot of a graph obtained from an article would not count as one of
these two pieces of data since you would not have produced it yourself.
• at least ONE model which you have studied in this module as a basis for your
discussion. Remember that models are tools used by social scientists to help them study
various phenomena (CORE 2.2). It is more than using economics language:
The word limit for the final submission is 400 words. The word count includes footnotes,
tables with paragraph-like text in them, and appendices. The word count excludes your
bibliography/references, numeric tables or charts and their titles. You must state your word
count at the top of the submission document.
