Edexcel A Level · 9EC0 · Theme 2: The UK economy: performance and policies
2.5.1 Causes of Economic Growth
Also Edexcel AS 8EC0
Everything you need for questions on causes of economic growth, in the words examiners reward. An interactive seven-step lesson goes with it.
What's on this sheet
- Actual and potential growth
- Calculations
- What causes each kind of growth
- International trade and growth
- Classic question: will higher investment bring sustained growth?
- Classic question: is export-led growth a good strategy for the UK?
- Side 2: practice tasks, where the marks go, and exam-style questions
- Separate answer key
The lesson in seven steps
- Two kinds of growth, two diagrams
- The growth recipe: more workers, or more output per worker?
- The growth calculation trainer
- Sort the causes
- What really drives long-run growth?
- Build the chain
- Exam practice
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