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Paper instructions:

This is the Questions that need to be answered: Are there significant direct investment flows into or out of Iceland?  Explain them and their impact on the overall balance of payments.
You need to work on the Direct Foreign Investment.  What businesses have built aluminum plants in Iceland?  When?  How much did they spend to build those plants? Focus on the biggest aluminum Company in Iceland
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All the attachments I have downloaded, may help.

Write 500 words on it, identifying and using the key data.

Be sure to credit any sources used.

Goals of this assignment:
It is not necessary to explain all 30 years of your country's economic history.  I encourage you to focus on a period of as little as 3-5 years.  Additionally, as with the first memo, you do not need to have a conclusive explanation for everything.  You are encouraged to note facts and events which are still mysterious to you, and explain why.
Sources: Your essential source is your country spreadsheets.  The graphed material should be way more than enough to do this memo.  But if you want to draw in additional data and/or make more graphs, don't let me hold you back.  As for written sources, look for some variety of written sources about your topic.  Especially if you are writing about policy, you should not rely only on government sources.  Diversify!
Include a list of sources.  The format is up to you, but all sources must include an author, a title, and a date.  The author may be an institution, like "U.S. State Department."  Feel free to include urls, but a url by itself is not adequate.  Credit sources carefully and thoroughly in the text.  When I read any written work by you, it should be absolutely clear to me what is your thought and writing, and what is drawn from another source, and when something is drawn from another source, what source.  You must use quotation marks and references whenever you use someone else's writing.  Mere paraphrase does not exempt you from this requirement.  Remember that this assignment is meant to be your analytical work.
Goals of this assignment:
1. To link your data with written descriptions of events in your country:  I will be looking for an effort to find explanations in written accounts for things you observe in that data, and efforts to look for confirmation in your data for things you read in the written accounts. 
2. To get you used to linking the Current and Financial accounts in the Balance of Payments:  The financial and current accounts are counterparts of each other -- you can't understand one side if you don't grasp the other.  So I will be looking for analysis that looks for the current-account counterparts of events affecting the financial account, financial-account counterparts of events affecting the current account.  If you're not sure about how to do this, ask me.

The memo will be evaluated on the degree to which it meets these  goals, plus:
•    Structure: Is the memo focused around a clear point?  Does it address that point in a well-organized way? 
•    Clarity: Is the paper clear and specific in its analysis?  Does it say who did what, or what caused what?  Does it avoid vagueness?  (See terms to be careful of (Links to an external site.).)  Are linkages between one event and another explained clearly?
•    Use of data: Is the analysis clearly related to the relevant data?  When data is used, is it clear what it shows?
•    Full sourcing and referencing.