International A Level Unit 4, Oct 2024

Q1 Deduce a likely consequence of rising national debt, as New Zealand's more than doubled between 2018 and 2022.

Q2 Classify Ghana's 2023 scrapping of payments to fuel producers (interventionist / reflationary / deflationary / market-based).

Q3 Work out what the USA's $943.8bn trade shortfall in 2022 tells you about its imports and exports.

Q4 Deduce which country gives up less to make watches or batteries, from two countries' maximum output table.

Q5 Identify what the world's 10 million non-government organisations mainly do (lending / community development / exchange rates / trade rules).

Q6 Choose the AD and SRAS diagram showing what a large rise in a currency's value does to prices and output.

Q7(a) Work out Vietnam's 2023 foreign direct investment from its 2022 level and the 32.1% rise reported.

Q7(b) Explain the meaning of absolute poverty, as used about the share of Vietnamese living in it.

Q7(c) Examine two economic gains Vietnam is likely to get from inward foreign investment, using the sources-of-FDI chart.

Q7(d) Analyse how shifting monthly pay for Vietnamese factory workers since 2012 affects the country's competitiveness abroad.

Q7(e) Discuss steps other than attracting foreign investment that Vietnam's government could take to compete better internationally.

Q10 Evaluate what can drive one currency down against another, as the Pakistani rupee fell 27% versus the dollar in 2022.

Q8 Evaluate what more barriers to trade do to the world economy, after 2 500 extra curbs appeared in 2022.

Q9 Evaluate why a more connected world economy can widen income gaps within a country, as in Indonesia since 2000.