Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow

Academic year: 2022-23 | Second trimester

Emerging Economic Environment (EEE) course

Individual Assignment (Weightage: 20 marks)

CLO: Analyze business implications of macroeconomic disequilibrium and stabilization policies

Objective of Individual Assignment:

To assess the ability of the student to analyze the business implications of domestic macroeconomic
disequilibrium/issues and stabilization policies (fiscal as well as monetary) as reported in print
media.

Guidelines:
1. This is individual task, i.e., each student has to submit the reports.
2. Select 5 news items from printed edition of ‘The Economic Times’. News item must be related to
domestic (specific to India) macroeconomic disequilibrium/issues which have some business
implications. News item should be related either to entire economy or to one or multiple
sectors/industries. It implies, company-specific news items should not be selected for analysis.
3. News items should be selected from 1 st September 2022 or later editions of ‘The Economic
Times’.
4. Take picture of the selected news items by using your smart phone.
5. Insert the pictures of the news items in your write-up (page 2) and mention the name of
newspaper, date of publication and page number below the inserted picture.
6. Analyze the business implications of domestic macroeconomic disequilibrium/issues and
stabilization policies (monetary as well as fiscal) as reported/mentioned/reflected in the news
item. You must support your analysis with relevant data.
7. Write the conclusions of your analysis and give your suggestions, separately for each news item.
At the end create a combined file containing all 5 and submit it.

Structure of Report:
Page 1: Common cover page (as circulated by PMC)
Page 2: Title and picture/image of each news item
Page 3/4: (i) Analysis, (ii) Conclusions and Suggestions of each news item

Submission guidelines
1. There will be one submission containing five news items and its analysis
2. Report should be prepared and submitted in a single MS Word file.
3. Report should be submitted on Moodle.
4. Analysis and suggestions should be written in student’s own language; it should not be a
copy & paste.
5. Last date for submission of the report on Moodle is 18th January 2023.
Rubrics for evaluation of Individual Assignment
For each news item, following rubrics will be used for evaluation.

Criterion Performance level Score

Poor Average Good
( <5 marks) (5-7 marks) (8-10 marks)
Relevance of news item News item is News item is News item is
to the objectives of the irrelevant or fairly relevant to highly relevant to
assignment remotely the objectives of the objectives of
connected to the the assignment the assignment
[Weight: 20%] objectives of the
assignment
Analysis of business Minimal or no Partial analysis of Comprehensive
implications of analysis of the the business analysis of the
macroeconomic business implications of business
disequilibrium/issues implications of the news item has implications of the
and stabilization the news item has been undertaken. news item has
policies as been undertaken. been undertaken.
reported/mentioned in Some relevant
the news item Analysis has not data has been Rich data has
been supported by provided in been provided in
[Weight: 60%] relevant data support of the support of the
analysis analysis
Conclusions and Conclusions do Conclusions are Clear and
suggestions not logically flow drawn from the convincing
from the analysis analysis but lack conclusions have
[Weight: 20%] and suggestions clarity and been drawn from
are generic suggestions are the analysis and
relevant but suggestions are
general relevant and
specific
Weighted score