International Business: Country Analysis

The objective of the assignment is to understand how to evaluate the dynamics of a country in terms
of geography, economy, society and polity. The students are intended to prepare a country report by
analysing at least 10 years of a country’s data retrieved from the public sources.

By the end of the assignment and presentation the students would be in a position to

1) Analyse a country holistically

2) Could analyse the past and present trends of a country’s attractiveness with regard to doing
business
3) Point out what are the prospective sectors in the country for doing business
4) The risks involved in doing business in the country
5) Provide short term and long term trend analysis with regard to different variables
6) Work on excel sheets and write reports

The students should keep in consideration the below mentioned points which are

NON-NEGOTIABLE

1) EACH AND EVERY MEMBER OF THE TEAM SHOULD CONTRIBUTE TO THE

REPORT
2) Data for the country analysis should be retrieved only from PUBLIC Sources
3) Copy Paste from different sources and reports is PROHIBITED. Strictly NO WIKEPEDIA
4) Source for the data should be provided at the end of every graph
5) The report should be professional and PRESENTABLE
6) Excel sheet for the data analysis should be neatly arranged and presentable
7) Data analysis on the excel sheet should be on the side hand side while the raw data would be
on the right hand side

Guide lines to write the report

1) The first part of the report would be a brief introduction about the country and its specific
features: Geography, Polity, Culture and its significant contribution
2) Analysis can be done with regard to the last 6-8 quarters and when monthly analysis for the
last 12-14 months

3) GDP:
a. GDP (Annual) : Annual growth (year on year) of last years in comparison to the last
10 year average – GDP data is of Constant Prices
 b. GDP (Quarterly): last 8 quarters growth (quarter on quarter i.e as compared to same
quarter in last year) as compared to the last 10 year average growth
c. GDP (Quarterly): Expenditure side elements growth
d. GDP (Quarterly): Expenditure side contribution to growth
e. GDP vs GDP Percapita
4) Demography:
a. Population Pyramid (Can be copied from the UN source)
b. Total population (bar graph) vs the total working age population
5) Inflation
a. Weights of inflation: where you can see what is the highest contributor for inflation
Index
b. Monthly inflation growth with regard to core inflation (annual growth with regard to
last year same month)
c. Monthly inflation growth with regard to main inflation parameters
6) IIP
a. Identify key drivers (contributors) of industrial production in the country
(segmentation)
b. Growth rate of the IIP key contributors (annual growth with regard to last year same
month)
c. IIP vs manufacturing
d. IIP with regard to the capacity utilization/
7) External Indicators
a. Quarterly account of Current Account actual (actual) plotted with the current account
as a % of GDP (plotted in the same graph). This data is available on a quarterly basis
for most of the countries
b. Foreign direct investment, Foreign Portfolio investment quarterly (USD Billion or
local currency Billion) – in the same graph
8) Trade
a. Trade balance (Actual) plotted with the annual growth rate of exports and imports:
b. Key exporting commodities and key importing commodities (Pie Charts) – calculate
the share with regard to total exports and imports respectively
c. Key export and import destinations (Annual growth or actuals)
d. Exchange rate with partners (USD is must)
9) Monetary and Financial
a. Policy rate over the last 5-6 years
b. Policy rate with plotted with annual growth of money supply
c. Policy rate with the loan growth
 d. Stock Price Index with the market capitalization
10) Public Finance
a. Central Governments Revenue vs Expenditure (Actuals)
b. Central govt Debt actual and central govt debt as % of GDP
c. External Debt (actual) and external debt as % of GDP

Note:

 Students are required to submit the list of team members and the variables they are working
 Completed excel sheets and the report to be submitted by 1 st December 2019, 5:30 PM – No
question of extension of Deadline