How has Bahrain benefitted from signing free trade agreements and how has it affected investment activity?
The project will test ability to select a topic of interest, learn widely of related facts and previous research, and think deeply and critically about existing literature. The project contains two parts: background facts and literature review.
The sources that have to be used are:
Weiss, M. (2005). Proposed U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement. Retrieved 8 April 2021, from https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20050404_RS21846_1fcb28e5d4cd3ee48576d939350b379edd0f05de.pdf
BH-US Free Trade Agreement. (2021). Retrieved 8 April 2021, from https://www.moic.gov.bh/en/Tiles/ForeignInvestment/free-trade-area-agreement#:~:text=By%20removing%20or%20reducing%20tariffs,and%20services%20more%20cost%20competitive
The Bahrain-United States Free Trade Agreement. Retrieved 8 April 2021, from http://www.sice.oas.org/TPD/USA_BHR/Studies/Overview_e.pdf
Waheed, A., & Abbas, S. (2015). Potential Export Markets for Bahrain: A Panel Data Analysis. Retrieved 8 April 2021, from https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shujaat-Abbas/publication/280568080_Potential_Export_Markets_for_Bahrain_A_Panel_Data_Analysis/links/55ba4cea08ae9289a092704d/Potential-Export-Markets-for-Bahrain-A-Panel-Data-Analysis.pdf
Bahrain Free Trade Agreement | United States Trade Representative. Retrieved 8 April 2021, from https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/bahrain-fta
Suri, D. (2017). Implications of U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement on Textile and Apparel Industry in Bahrain. Retrieved 8 April 2021, from https://www.ijac.org.uk/images/frontImages/gallery/Vol._6_No._6/4._36-45.pdf
The Bahrain-United States Free Trade Agreement. Retrieved 8 April 2021, from http://www.sice.oas.org/TPD/USA_BHR/Studies/Overview_e.pdf
Background facts: These are the facts that are relevant for your topic. Please do not simply restate another researchers observation or copy a graph or a table from an earlier paper. Instead, I expect you to obtain, play with, and present the data, even if in some case this is an exact replication of an earlier work. This is important because in existing papers, an author presents facts in a way that is most supportive of his or her own points. You will likely import another persons opinion if you take his graph as the fact. Also having the data at hand makes it easy for you to explore patterns or check a simple idea.
Literature review: Read the sources very carefully. Gain knowledge on the topic and come up with a coherent map of the current state of knowledge on the topic. While literatures on some issues have a long history, your literature review should weigh toward the newer papers. It is essential that the final literature review is well synthesized, instead of being a list of summaries. The set of papers you select should be published or publishable in a peer-reviewed academic journal. You should conclude the literature review section with a summary of the literature review findings. Think about the limitation of the current research and how additional steps can be taken to improve it.
