Examine macroeconomic aggregate indicators, such as the GDP, inflation rate, unemployment rate, and their implications on the national economy. 

This assessment deals with how economists measure various nations economies using measures such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In this assessment, you will also deal with how to measure the cost of living changes and rate of unemployment in the economy. 

  1. Using the same procedures described in the learning activity and listed in the  document, choose two different countries than the countries chosen during the learning activity, and perform the same analysis, answering the questions below. Collect the data requested below from the World Bank for the year of 2000 and for the year of 2015. The  is available from the Purdue Center for Economic Education.
    1. Choose any two countries and for each country, download AND LIST the following data from the World Bank, in an Excel spreadsheet, for both the year ending 2000 and the year ending 2015: 
      1. Industry (including construction), value added
      2. GDP
      3. GDP per capita
      4. Population, total
      5. Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate)
      6. Employment in industry (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate)
      7. Employment in services (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate)
      8. Employment to population ratio, over 15 years of age total percentage.
      9. Land area (sq. km)
    2. Correctly calculate the percentage differences for each set of data, for each country between the year 2000 and the year 2015. Also, correctly calculate the percentage difference between your two countries for the year 2015 for each of the data elements. 
    3. In a 400 500-word essay, explain, in detail, WHY you think these values are different between the two countries and how long run economic growth operates differently between these two countries. 
  2. Assume there is a simple economy where people consume only two goods, food and clothing, as shown in the table below. Further assume that the market basket of goods used to compute the CPI consists of 100 units of food and 20 units of clothing.

 

Yearly Price per Unit

Food

Clothing

2004 price per unit

$8

$20

2005 price per unit

$12

$40

 

    1. Compute the percentage changes in the price of food and the percentage change in the price of clothing between 2004 and 2005. 
    2. Calculate the percentage change in the CPI between 2004 and 2005. 
    3. Do you think the CPI price changes affect all consumers in the economy to the same extent? If not, how do you determine who wins and who loses in this particular situation? Explain.

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