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Discuss the Economic consequences of fuel subsidies.

The Economic consequences of fuel subsidies
Use a good range of graphs and diagrams, case studies (i.e Nigeria, US?), divide references into primary and secondary references, include a table of abbreviations, table of contents.

Keep in mind, what is the question? why is it important? how will you address it (qualitative or quantitative approach?), an appendix may be good.

A-range: “Excellent grasp of concept, clear evidence of deep learning. Excellent

analytical ability and critical thought. Superior understanding and appreciation of the

subject. Superior ability in logical argument. High proficiency in structuring and

presenting arguments. Excellent use of examples, references, citations to support points

and justify arguments. Evidence of extensive reading and very good information

retrieval skills”

When writing, it may be useful to bear this in mind…

i.What is the research question that you are trying to answer? Have the

research question as the title of your paper. This helps provide focus.

ii. What does the scholarly literature say? Provide a few sentences (e.g.

three to five) summarizing the key messages of each of your four or

five main references. Ensure that your references are of high quality.

Provide complete citations. The proposal has to contain a critical

review of the relevant scholarly articles. In short, you need to read

several scholarly articles, select the relevant ones, and provide concise

summaries in the proposal. It is not enough merely to list the scholarly

articles, or simply to say that they exist.

iii. What is the specific methodology that you plan to use? Explain three

or four alternative methodologies, select one, and provide strong

reasons why it was selected. If you plan to use numerical methods,

provide the specific equations that you plan to use, and discuss your

approach to the calculations. A good literature review should assist

your methodology selection, whether quantitative or qualitative. What

are the methodologies that other scholarly articles have used? How did

their methodologies assist in answering their research questions? How

different or similar is your research question to theirs? How different

or similar is your methodology to theirs? As you go through the

scholarly literature, you should be able to find the various

methodologies that have been used, and select the one that is relevant

to your work.

iv. What is the hypothesis that you seek to test? Show how the acceptance

or rejection of your hypothesis conforms to your methodology and

serves to answer your research question. If you plan to use a

quantitative approach, provide a strategy for estimation or modelling.

If you plan to use a qualitative approach, provide a strategy for testing

the validity of a claim or set of propositions.

v. What are the data or information needed? Explain the strategy for

acquiring, handling, and processing the data or information in a

manner that is appropriate to your selected methodology.

vi. What are the findings that you expect? Describe the range of results

that are reasonable. Provide a strategy for dealing with results that

look unreasonable or anomalous. What is the range of expected or

reasonable results? How near or far are your results relative to it? Are

there clues provided by other scholarly articles as regards possible

reasons for being outside it? How adequate are your conceptual or

theoretical foundations? Are there violations of fundamental

assumptions of economic or statistical theory? Are there severe market

distortions that are potentially confounding the theory or empirical

implementation? Are there alternative model specifications that could

be used? How would you proceed to adjust your model, if needed? How

available or complete is your data? Would a longer or shorter time

series alter the results significantly? How stable are the parameters

across regimes within the sample period? How stable are the

parameters if the sample is changed? Have you executed a proper

implementation? Have you conducted sanity checks on the software

code, database, etc.? It is crucial to be able to demonstrate an ability to

engage in reflection on (rather than a mechanical acceptance of) the

results. Are there other scholarly articles that report unexpected

results? How do they structure their explanations or solutions?

vii. How do you think the findings will be useful to decision makers? Share

your insights ideally stemming from deep learning, reflection, and

intellectual maturity. Exercise your skills in the use of history, theory,

and statistics, as needed. Draw conclusions or make recommendations

on the basis of your analysis. They should emerge organically and

naturally from the analysis and research process (rather than

arbitrarily invoked or somehow arising randomly without analytical

support).

viii. What are the risks to the timely completion of the paper? There could

be a variety of risks (e.g. inadequate conceptual foundation,

unavailable or incomplete data, improper implementation, unexpected

results, errors, etc.). Explain how you plan to mitigate them. Think of

worse case scenarios and how you intend to cope with them.

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