Assignment Question
Research Paper: Each student should choose a topic related to Economic Freedom to research and write a paper about (between 12 to 15 pages, not including the references.) You should use some references (Books, research papers, reports, etc). NO internet sources.
The research paper needs to be a Quantitative analysis of subjects related and effected by Economic Freedom. This means you need to collect data about the variables and analyze their relationship through some statistical software (Excel is ok, and no problem if you chose another software).
Here what you need to do specifically: You need to use the data on the Economic Freedom Index as your independent variable, and one of the following variables as your dependent variable and find the correlation coefficient between the two variables and show us the relationship graphically: The potential variables (as dependent variables) that you can chose among, but not limited to, are the following: (1) Corruption, (2) Military Expenditure, (3) GDP Growth rate (4) Political Freedom, (5) Human Development (6) Poverty and Inequality, (7) Environmental Degradation and Pollution, (8) Misery Index. Additionally, each student should state the region that she/he will analyze. You can choose one of the following regions: Southeast Asia, Latin America, South America, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia Countries. The paper worth 10 points of the total grade for the class. The paper should use the Chicago Manual Style of writing, double space, 1-inch margin.