AQA A Level · 7136 · Paper 1: Markets and market failure

4.1.7.2 The Problem of Poverty

Also AQA AS 7135: 3.1.5.7

Everything you need for questions on poverty, in the words examiners reward. An interactive seven-step lesson goes with it.

What's on this sheet

  1. Two kinds of poverty
  2. Seeing the difference
  3. Causes of changes in absolute poverty
  4. Causes of changes in relative poverty
  5. Classic question: is economic growth the best way to reduce poverty?
  6. Causes of poverty in a developed economy
  7. Effects of poverty
  8. Side 2: practice tasks, where the marks go, and exam-style questions
  9. Separate answer key

The lesson in seven steps

  1. Absolute line fixed, relative line moving
  2. Which kind of poverty?
  3. Rise, fall or little change?
  4. Poverty trainer
  5. Measuring and reducing poverty
  6. Build the chain
  7. Exam practice

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