International A Level Unit 4, May 2025

Q1 Pick the change most likely behind India's stronger development since 2002 (internet reach, phone reach, conflict, life expectancy).

Q2 Say what most likely follows when a country's debt falls, as Sweden's did between 2020 and 2022.

Q3 Deduce what follows from Romanian output per worker growing faster than in its main trading partners in 2022.

Q4 Choose which of four aggregate demand and short-run supply sketches fits a large fall in a currency's value.

Q5 Work out Australia's terms of trade index for December 2023 from export and import price falls over the year.

Q6 Deduce what Uruguay's Gini figures from 2017 to 2021 imply for its Lorenz curve.

Q7(a) Work out world GDP for 2020 given exports of $22.5 trillion and the chart of exports as a share of GDP.

Q7(b) Examine two drivers of deeper world integration since 1980, using the exports-to-GDP chart and the opening extract paragraph.

Q7(c) Say what protectionist measures are, as used of US and EU action against China in the extract.

Q7(d) Analyse two jobs the World Trade Organization does, using the extract questioning its effectiveness.

Q7(e) Discuss what China stands to gain economically from its 28 free-trade deals and RCEP membership.

Q10 Assess the effects of state spending taking a bigger share of output, as Italy's rose to 56.7% by 2022.

Q8 Assess ways of narrowing a current account shortfall, prompted by the 2022 deficits of Turkiye and Canada.

Q9 Assess what economically holds back a poorer country's progress, prompted by 2022 HDI scores for Mozambique and Guatemala.