- Your research project will apply the regional perspective of global development to a country and a theme of your choice. The project should be based on the analysis of the original empirical and statistical data and supported by valid published and online sources (see the rules for literature citation and referencing below). The lists of possible themes and issues as well as the list of countries to choose from are provided.
- When choosing a country for your research project, select it from a region you are mostly interested in, and from a group of countries by the level of economic development that you would like to explore (high-income, middle-income, low-income economies, transition economies, command economies). Match the country of your choice with the geographic theme or issue in regional development you are most passionate about. That combination will make a perfect topic for your research project.
- Your project will start with an introduction explaining why you have chosen this particular country and this particular issue for analysis and describing the original data that you are going to analyze. The essay should end with a conclusion summarizing your data, observations, hypotheses, ideas, opinions, and explanations.
- Formatting: Typed, five-to-six-page long (not including data tables, pictures, and references), double-spaced, 1-inch margins all around. Nothing more than your name and the date should be in the upper right corner of the paper. No cover page. A descriptive title should be at the top-center of the first page. Pages must be numbered.
- Start with a research proposal (an outline of your proposed project). The proposal should include the country and the issue that your proposed project will focus on and a short bullet-point outline.
- Your research project should include the original published and statistical data that you will discuss, analyze, and use for making conclusions. There are multiple valid sources of data including original journal articles, published books, TV programs, and Internet sites. All data sources must be clearly identified; the numeric data should be organized in tables. Do not use blogs as data sources.
- Your essay should have at least five sources from identifiable authors, cited within the essay and listed in an alphabetical bibliography, according to a standard citation style (APA or Chicago Style). Here is a link to the APA and Chicago citation styles:
- Very important: all information sources (including data tables, pictures, and graphs) should be cited both within the text and in the alphabetical order at the end of your essay in the form of a reference list. a). Make a reference list of all information sources you used in your paper and place it at the end of the paper. For a book, indicate author’s name (or authors’ names), book title, publisher, and the year it was published. Example: Sheppard, Eric, Philip Porter, David Faust, and Richa Nagar (2009). A World of Difference: Encountering and Contesting Development, New York-London: The Guilford Press. For a journal article, indicate author’s name, article title, journal title, year published and volume number, article pages. Example: Malle, S. (2008). Economic Transformation in Russia and China. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 49 (4), 410-444 For a website, give a complete web address, its title or topic, and the date when it was accessed. Example: Regional aggregation using 2015 PPP and $1.25/day poverty line, http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/index.htm?1#, accessed February 16, 2020. b). In the text, you must cite your reference sources at the end of each paragraph where this source was used even if you were not quoting it directly. Example: Pollution is the price paid by an economic system emphasizing ever-increasing growth as a primary goal. Many argue that we must transform our present growth-oriented economic system into a balance-oriented system (Stutz and Warf, 2012)
- All demographic, economic, and other data in the form of photographs, graphs, diagrams, and number tables that you are using in your essay must be numbered, titled, properly cited and referenced, and referred to in the essay. Failure to cite information sources in a research essay is considered plagiarism. Plagiarism is unethical and must be strictly avoided.
- Though you are using literature sources and cited data, the paper must be written in your own words with your own analysis of the information based on the data, published and online sources, and your original conclusions.
- List of countries to choose from for the project: Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Germany, Spain, Greece, Poland, Croatia, Norway, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Burma, Australia, New Zealand*.
12.List of themes and issues to choose from for the project: 1. Natural resources and resource use 2. Natural hazards (both geological and atmospheric) 3. Environmental issues (environmental degradation and protection) 4. Population dynamics (issues of natural change and migration) 5. Cities and the process of urbanization 6. Geopolitical situation (war, social unrest, relationship with neighbors) 7. Economic development (agriculture, industrialization, services, trade) 8. Social development (educational level, health, gender relations) **
*You can choose two countries for comparison or combine two or more issues for a country analysis.
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