Week 6 revised research plan

The Research Plan

Title:
The United States and Foreign Aid from an economic aspect.

Topic Focus:
Should the United States give foreign aid to underdeveloped countries or should aid from the United States only be focused on the United States?

Scope:
I will discuss different aspects of foreign economic aid. I want to focus a lot of my research on economic resources to strengthen and accelerate the development of the economy of poor or underdeveloped countries. I will also be covering some of the services offered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services for American citizens.

Outline:
I. Essence of Foreign economic aid.
a. Distribution of resources to poorer countries to increase development.
b. Component of a nation’s foreign policy.
c. Hard loans, soft loans, and grants.
II. Objectives of Foreign economic aid
a. How much aid is needed?
b. Requirement for aid.
c. Use of aid.
d. Burden of aid.
e. Problems with aid, things that need fixed.
III. United States Department of Health and Human Services.
a. Programs offered.
b. Availability.
c. Requirements.
IV. United States should provide foreign economic aid
a. Fewer resources for underdeveloped countries.
b. Over 40 economic programs offered for American citizens.
c. Good for foreign relations.

Academic Disciplines:
· Social Sciences
· Economics
· Sociology

Key Terms:
· United States and foreign aid
· Foreign aid policies
· Economic assistance
· Foreign economic relations
· Foreign services
· Foreign assistance
· Economic development
· Foreign exchange rate risk
· Foreign investments
· International economic relations
· International poverty
Nature of Topic:
· Reference resources-get general information and statistical information which is unbiased.
· Current publications on the economy-I can get the most up-to-date information, although somewhat biased, I feel I can sift through opinions to get to some current facts.
· Government websites-I can get exact information of what programs are offered and to what countries, or from what agencies.

Library of Congress Classification (LC) Areas
· H1-99 Social Sciences (General)
· HA154-4737 Statistical Data
· HA175-473 by region or country
· HB1-3840 Economic theory-demography
· HB846.846.8 Welfare theory
· HB 801-843 consumption demand
· HB848-3697 demography, population, vital events
· HD87.W652007
· HC60.A453232006
When I visited library I did look up subject headings in Library of Congress books but I didn’t write down call numbers. I hope this is somewhat closer to what I needed to have.
· Foreign Aid Program
· Economic Assistance
· Technical Assistance



All changes are in red. I added more LC areas that I found. I did forget to write some of them down. I found a lot more key terms to use and added those as well.