Analyzing the Impact of Various Crises on a Country's Economy

You are an analyst or economist working for a large organisation that prepares analytical reports for their subscribers. As an analyst you have been tasked by your line manager to write a report on the economic development of a country of your choice over the years. Particularly they want to understand how the economy for the country of you choice has been affected by various economic, financial, currency or pandemic crises. They are interested to see which of the crises has had the most impact on the economy of your chosen country.

You are required to write a report analysing the impact of various crisis and the impact they have had on the country’s economy. You must compare 4 main crises (financial, economic, currency, political, social or pandemics) from the past with the shock to the economy that Covid-19 pandemic had.

When you do compare these 4 crises with the Covid-19 pandemic do so for a timeframe of at least 5 years for each crisis. You then need to discuss the policies that were taken by the government to alleviate the negative impact these crises had on society and evaluate how successful were they.

The questions you should keep in mind are:

1. How have different crises affected the main macroeconomic indicators?
   
   
2. How has unemployment, GDP growth, inflation, government spending, welfare state spending, public debt, household debt, exports, imports, exchange rates and interest rates been affected by these crises?

3. How do these crises compare in terms of the impact they had on the above-mentioned macroeconomic indicators with the impact that Covid-19 pandemic had on the economy?
   
   
4. What monetary and fiscal policies were employed by the government to alleviate some of the economic problems caused by these crises?

5. How successful were these policies or measures?