Strategies Influencing Growth and Development — Edexcel Past Paper Questions

Assess two likely benefits of debt relief to Angola. Refer to Extract B in your answer.

4.3.3 Development Strategies

Discuss market-orientated strategies the Angolan government could use to improve development.

4.3.3 Development Strategies

Evaluate the microeconomic and macroeconomic strategies that could be used to promote development in Kenya, or another developing country of your choice.

One of two options in Section B — candidates answered this or the other.

4.3.3 Development Strategies

Using the data in Figures 1 and 2, calculate the change in the level of total aid funding to Rwanda between 2011 and 2012.

4.3.3 Development Strategies

With reference to the information provided, assess the likely impact on the Rwandan economy of the change in aid received between 2017 and 2018.

4.3.3 Development Strategies

Discuss policies, other than import tariffs, that the Rwandan government could use to develop its manufacturing industries.

4.3.3 Development Strategies

With reference to Figure 1 and Extract A, explain the likely impact of a Fairtrade scheme on agricultural communities.

4.3.3 Development Strategies

Examine two ways, apart from Fairtrade schemes, in which cocoa farmers could boost their incomes despite the falling price of cocoa.

4.3.3 Development Strategies · 1.2.5 Price Elasticity of Supply

Discuss the likely benefits of increased economic integration for sub‑Saharan African countries.

4.1.5 Trading Blocs and the WTO · 4.3.3 Development Strategies

With reference to Extract D line 21, explain why ‘opportunity cost’ is a problem for governments of developing countries when servicing debt.

1.1.3 The Economic Problem · 4.3.3 Development Strategies

Discuss whether borrowers benefit from microfinance. Make reference to Mozambique in your answer.

4.3.3 Development Strategies · 4.4.1 Role of Financial Markets

Discuss the role of the financial sector in the growth and development of developing countries.

4.4.1 Role of Financial Markets · 4.3.3 Development Strategies

Examine the likely effects on the profitability of Indonesian rice farmers of the government’s increased investment in dams (Extract E, lines 43-48). Use a cost and revenue diagram to support your answer.

3.3.2 Costs · 4.3.3 Development Strategies

Discuss the benefits of aid to Indonesia.

4.3.3 Development Strategies

Evaluate the likely microeconomic and macroeconomic effects of the supply-side policies recently introduced in Indonesia.

One of two options in Section B — candidates answered this or the other.

2.6.3 Supply-Side Policies · 4.3.3 Development Strategies

With reference to the information provided and your own knowledge, evaluate the microeconomic and macroeconomic effects of policies that could be used to stimulate economic growth and development in Chile.

One of two options in Section A — candidates answered this or the other.

4.3.3 Development Strategies · 2.5.1 Causes of Growth