AQA A Level · 7136 · Paper 2: The national and international economy

4.2.6.3 The Balance of Payments: Part 3: Competitiveness

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Everything you need for questions on international competitiveness and the current account, in the words examiners reward. An interactive seven-step lesson goes with it.

What's on this sheet

  1. Measuring competitiveness
  2. Wages are not the whole story
  3. Factors influencing competitiveness
  4. Why it matters
  5. Classic question: is a depreciation the best way to improve competitiveness?
  6. Side 2: practice tasks, where the marks go, and exam-style questions
  7. Separate answer key

The lesson in seven steps

  1. Wages, productivity and the pound
  2. What drives competitiveness?
  3. Better or worse?
  4. Competitiveness trainer
  5. How to compete
  6. Build the chain
  7. Exam practice

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