ECS2730 ASSIGNMENT 2020 

ECS2730 ASSIGNMENT 2020
This is an individual assessment task. This assignment is designed to test your achievement of weekly learning objectives for weeks 1 - 3. Students will be doing a comparative analysis between two African countries. The first one is randomly assigned to you and the comparative country is Rwanda (for everyone). You will find data/ information from IMF, World Development Indicators(WDI); CIA fact book or country websites but you are not limited to these sources. There is a word limit of 1500 words. For the country assigned and Rwanda, find the following macroeconomic variables
1. Annual Real GDP growth rate
2. Annual GDP per capita growth rate
3. Annual Unemployment rate
4. Gross Domestic Savings
5. Inflation rate
(a) Discuss any problems you experienced in obtaining these data. Did you expect these problems? (5 Marks)
(b) For your assigned African country, describe (using graphs) how each of the macroeconomic variables moved over time between 1995 and 2018 and compare these observations to that of the same variables of Rwanda for the period of interest. (30 Marks)
(c) Based on the observed trends in each of the last three variables (i.e. unemployment rate, Gross Domestic Savings & inflation rate) how do you expect each variable to move between 2019 and 2021 (for both countries)? (5 Marks)

My assigned countries are South Africa and Rwanda