Explain the main drivers behind greater world economic integration.
AQA · 7136 / 7135
International trade comes up in 39 questions across the AQA A Level and AS past papers (7136 / 7135), worth 445 marks between them. They run from 2020 to 2023 and appear on A Level Paper 2, A Level Paper 3.
Tariffs run from 1 to 25 marks. The commonest instructions are Multiple choice (12), Explain how (8), Using the data (6). Specification points covered: 4.2.6.1, 4.2.6.2, 4.2.6.3, 4.2.6.4, 4.2.6.5.
Explain the main drivers behind greater world economic integration.
Assess whether closer integration with the world economy has helped Britain.
Pick the transaction recorded as a transfer outflow abroad.
Interpret output data to see which country should specialise.
Judge whether one currency rose or fell against two others.
Assess from the figures whether Sri Lanka is more developed than Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Show from chart data that steady expansion is linked with growing inward investment from abroad.
Diagram question on how greater inward investment by overseas firms can raise a country's export sales.
Assess whether attracting overseas investment is the right route for African countries to raise living standards.
Explain the use of policies that redirect spending towards domestic output to cut a trade deficit.
Assess whether a currency allowed to float is superior to a pegged system in all circumstances.
Explain why the worth of goods and services sold overseas by Britain may vary.
Evaluate the claim that every country gains from trading across borders.
Identify a genuine function of the WTO in world trade.
Explain a rising human development score over five years.
Evaluate measures that might lift South Korean overseas sales and widen its trade surplus.
Explain the steps authorities can take to stop their currency appreciating.
Evaluate what a lasting appreciation of sterling means for prices and welfare in Britain.
Compare income per head against a wider development measure for four countries.
Identify a measure that redirects spending away from foreign goods to cut a current deficit.
Calculate US purchases from China per dollar earned selling to it in one year.
Use chart data to explain why America might have turned to trade barriers.
Diagram question on how placing a duty on imports changes the quantity brought in.
Assess whether emerging economies should shield domestic industry to advance their development.
Explain the likely effect of a stronger currency on how fast an economy grows.
Evaluate the gains and drawbacks of adopting a shared currency such as the euro.
Identify which features define a customs union.
Explain a currency movement caused by a shift in the supply of euros.
Work out the percentage movement in goods trade balances with five leading partners between two periods.
Use trade data to show stronger goods performance outside Europe than within it.
Diagram question on how far scrapping a duty on imports changes the amount entering Britain.
Evaluate whether shielding domestic producers is bound to harm economies.
Explain, with illustrations, how rising output differs from broader improvements in wellbeing.
Discuss whether open trade beats aid for advancing progress in poorer nations like Ethiopia.
Likely consequence for Britain when sterling buys fewer dollars.
On what the benefit from trading with other nations depends.
Work out the fall in a currency index and give a plausible cause.
How might Brazil gain when a British carmaker builds operations there?
Advise the firm whether to place its investment in Brazil, justifying the decision.
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