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CountryReport.docxCountry Report
You have been commissioned by Population Probe, an international organization concerned with global population and challenges with living standards. They would like your perspective on the population pressures and resulting environmental, social, political, and economic issues in different countries around the world and would like you to present these issues in a Persuasive Report. Your goal is convince Mrs. Brine to award Population Probe’s five billion dollars of aid money to your country (without skewing, distorting or omitting any facts!)
Your Persuasive Report must present the following information for your chosen country:
Required Information; try to be as current as possible. These are mostly statistics so you need to describe this information in full sentences and can put it all together in paragraph form. It can all be explained in one paragraph if you choose:
1. current population
2. population density
3. birth and death rates
4. stage in the Demographic Transition Model (give evidence as to how you know this)
5. infant mortality rates
6. life expectancy at birth
8. recent population pyramid (insert picture) and explain it
9. dependency ratio
10. emigration/immigration rates: you will likely only find the net migration rate so use that
11. literacy rate
12. GDP or GNP (Gross Domestic Product or Gross National Product)
The following topics need to be written in paragraph form; one paragraph per question. Please write about these topics as if you are there, visiting and researching in the actual country. Create sub headings in your report for each of these topics:
13. Discussion of national living standards: availability/access of food and water, overpopulation, employment opportunities or lack thereof, poverty, health risks, mortality rates, diseases, hunger and malnutrition (provide examples of as many as you can as evidence).
14. Analyze the impact of population growth or decline on a country’s standard of living. Does it have positive or negative outcomes?
15. Which groups are the most vulnerable people subjected to poverty and why? How will financial aid help these people? Include analysis and discussion of the poverty trap.
16. Past or current social, political, or economic problems arising from population pressures and their solutions (or attempted/possible solutions).
*must present at least one of social, political, or economic *
17. Address environmental issues in the country including but not limited to one of the following: global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, water supply, soil depletion, deforestation, waste management and what the governmental responses are to environmental issues.
18. Predicted needs of the population in 50 years (based on population pyramid and issues likely to arise in the future).
19. How you would spend the aid money in your country to ease these needs and problems.
More information to help you…
Research: try to find the most up to date information as possible which may sometimes be difficult depending on your country. Just do your best. Have a Google doc where you are keeping track of your notes and statistics along with the links to any articles you have used. Remember, you need to use these links later to create a proper Works Cited.
The Report itself: Use the template offered by Google (I will show you in the video explanation and the link is below). The report must be written in paragraphs so should not be numbered as though you are just answering questions. I will be returning any reports for you to fix if it is not done correctly.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J0VkqWnPVT_EvUx0ZeheNIEzAYgycnwrQFISdDsQo8Y/edit
Visuals: especially helpful to present some of this information, and a visual is required for the population pyramid. Include pictures from other areas that show aspects of your country.
Works Cited: always required to show academic honesty when conducting any research. Give credit where credit is due!
Summary of what you will be handing in:
1. Your completed Report in full sentences and paragraphs with all the topics and awesome visuals.
2. Your Works Cited using MLA8 format.
3. Your Google doc of notes you took while researching and links you saved along the way.
* Please see the rubric for any other criteria questions you may have.
