International A Level Unit 4, May 2024

Q1 Identify what the World Bank mainly does, from four descriptions of international institutions.

Q2 Deduce the type of tax system Hungary uses when the share of income taken stays constant.

Q3 Identify why Britain kept its steel import tariffs in place until 2024.

Q4 Work out Tanzania's 2021 terms of trade from its export and import price indices.

Q5 Deduce what HDI, schooling, life expectancy and income data show about Chile and Uruguay.

Q6 Deduce what the Dominican Republic's Gini coefficient from 2018 to 2021 shows about income distribution.

Q7(a) Work out Indonesia's 2022 GDP, given its current account surplus equalled 1% of output.

Q7(b) Explain how a trade deficit differs from a trade surplus, using Indonesia's monthly trade chart.

Q7(c) Analyse two economic gains for Indonesia from its growing population of 276 million.

Q7(d) Examine two difficulties Indonesia faces from relying on commodities such as nickel and palm oil.

Q7(e) Discuss free-market strategies Indonesia's government could use to raise its growth rate.

Q10 Evaluate why state spending rises relative to national output in a chosen developing country, as in Azerbaijan and India.

Q8 Evaluate ways of stopping a currency losing value, after the yen's 35% slide against the dollar.

Q9 Evaluate the drawbacks for a country of joining a monetary union, with Romania's euro ambition in mind.