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Q7 Explain one drawback of Guyana posting the world's fastest real GDP growth, 62.3%, in 2022.
Edexcel · 9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14
Costs of growth comes up in 5 questions across the Edexcel A Level, AS and International A Level past papers (9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14), worth 65 marks between them. They run from 2020 to 2025 and appear on International A Level Unit 2.
Tariffs run from 1 to 20 marks. The commonest instructions are Evaluate (3), Explain (1), Identify (MCQ) (1). Specification points covered: 2.3.5.3.
Q7 Explain one drawback of Guyana posting the world's fastest real GDP growth, 62.3%, in 2022.
Q2 India's real GDP rose 8% in 2021. Identify the most likely cost of economic growth. (lower profits / more environmental damage / lower tax revenues / more investment)
Q13 For a country you choose, evaluate what economic growth costs, given claims that chasing it has brought pollution, climate change and resource overuse.
Q14 Evaluate whether growth's costs exceed its benefits, given Ethiopia's above-10% annual expansion from 2004 to 2018 alongside heavy deforestation.
Q13 India's GNI per capita rose from Rs45 326 up to Rs125 089 over 2010-2017 alongside nine of the ten most polluted cities; evaluate rapid growth's costs for one economy.
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