The recent financial crisis (post 2008)

Description

BUSINESS ECONOMICS

STRUCTURE FOR ASSIGNMENT 2/SEPTEMBER 2020

Title Page

List of Contents

List of Tables, Illustrations and/or accompanying materials

Section 1 – Introduction or Theoretical Background (300 words)

· Short background of your chosen country (Indonesia or Malaysia or Nigeria) in terms of how it would have been impacted by the Financial Crisis of 2008

· A brief summary of how fiscal and monetary policy was used to achieve economic objectives in your chosen country

· How effective were the policies implemented in the chosen country.

Section 2 – Academic and sector literature related to appropriate theory (1300 words)

: Here you present in a well- structured and organized way all the information you have collected from other sources. In this section you are required to

i) explore which economic objectives were affected give data to support this generally and your chosen country (500 words)

ii) present the relevant literature regarding the effects of fiscal monetary and other policy in responding to the financial crisis and meeting economic objectives generally and in your chosen country (800 words)

Section 3 – The application of theory to practice (your own “value added”) ( 800 words)

.In this section you need to

· analyse the effectiveness of fiscal, monetary and other policies in your chosen country by analysing what was actually done vs what the theory says

· evaluate whether the policies worked effectively or not backed up by evidence and data such as interest rate, inflation rate, GDP, unemployment rate need to be presented to support your analysis.

·Section 4 – Conclusions, recommendations, or implications for the future. (600 word)

You summarize your main findings and identify areas of importance. Policy recommendations should be discussed here.

References

Referencing is the way in which you arrange in your work the quotations you make from other authors or the sources on which you draw. Details of how to reference effectively can be found on BREO

OECD – www.OECD.org

World Bank – www.worldbank.org

Eurostat – ec.europa.eu/Eurostat

International Monetary Fund Website

World Economic Forum Website

Economic and other Journals

Appendices

General Reminders

· The total word count for this assignment is 3,000 words

· Font size 12 Arial with 1.5 line spacing

· Numbers below one hundred in the main text are usually spelt out in full (e.g., sixty-five), as well as those which can be expressed in two words (three million); but 2,760 specimens, 516 students.

· Numerals should be used for dates/use the word percent instead of %