| Free Trade Area (FTA) Project Outline | Grade Assessment Factors |
| | Quality of research | | | Quality of Presentation | | | Quality of Interpretation |
| Headings and sub-headings for major sections of the FTA Profile | Depth: salience & diversity of cited sources | Information: Precision & Accuracy of Data | Originality of sources explored & relied on | Fluency: of text and illustrative material | Logic: balance/emphasis placed on report's elements | Conformity to bibliographic practices eg. APA | Awareness: demonstrates how elements revealed in report combine | Insights:interpretation of the information - opps for business, trends discerned. | Summation: Sections 1) & 5) supported by inform't'n presented |
| 3) Regional Business Environment | √ | √ | | √ | √ | √ |
| a) Region’s Political Economy: (id comparative advantages) | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| i) Consultative/Democratic/Advisory | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| ii) Depth of integration; (identify & discuss)position on spectrum | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (1) Free Trade Area (tending to) > | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (2) Customs Union(tending to) > | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (3) Common Market (tending to) > | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (4) Economic Union (tending to) > | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (a) Financial | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (b) Monetary , (tending to)> | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (5) Political Union | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| iii) Common institutions (that work) | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (1) IDBs, micro-banks, etc. | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (2) Local and regional Markets | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (a) Financial, | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (b) Commodity | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (c) Capital | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (d) Labour | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (3) Infrastructural investments | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (4) Educational | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (5) Legal | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (a) Enforcement of contract & property rights | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (i) Institutional capacities | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| 1. (describe the) Nominal vs. | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| 2. (discuss the) Realities | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (6) Other | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| iv) Key political actors / stakeholders | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (1) Parties | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (2) Nationalist movements | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (3) Public opinion | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (4) Consumers | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (5) Labour unions | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (6) Employer & Investor interests | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (7) Indigenous/First Nations interests | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (8) Other, e.g. | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (a) Fair Trade, | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (b) NGOs | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (c) Development agencies, | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (d) Environmental interests | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |