Description
Introduction
Brazil boasted one of the fastest growing economies between 2000 and 2012. However, their economic growth has rapidly declined since then. Let’s explore the reasons why this happened.
Instructions
Respond to the given question:
Read Chapter 3 – National Differences in Economic Development closing case “Brazil’s Struggling Economy” and answer the following question: Why did Brazil’s economic growth falter after 2012? How much of the damage was self-inflicted, and how much was due to factors outside of the country’s control?
Directions
You are advised to post at least two responses to each discussion question, one of which should be a reply to someone else’s post. Each response should be no less than 150 words and no more than 300 words. If you post only one response, the maximum score you can earn is 21/35 (60%) only, regardless of the quality of your post.
Discussions need to be professional. Please make proper use of capitalization to begin sentences; also make sure that there are no misspellings, incomplete sentences, or other violations of grammatical rules.
The basic criterion for a discussion post to be considered effective is that your message must be original and intelligible. You must communicate concisely and effectively. In addition, you must meet the weekly requirements for full credit on discussion assignments.
You should keep each response within a word limit of 300 words.
Evaluation Criteria
All discussions together make up 35% of the total course score. This discussion is worth 35 points. Here is the rubric Download rubricfor this discussion.
