Q8 Assess how the rest of the world is affected by China's growth slowing to 5% in 2024.
Edexcel · 9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14
Effects of globalisation comes up in 9 questions across the Edexcel A Level, AS and International A Level past papers (9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14), worth 92 marks between them. They run from 2020 to 2025 and appear on International A Level Unit 4, International A Level Unit 4A.
Tariffs run from 1 to 20 marks. The commonest instructions are Evaluate (4), Calculate (2), Identify (MCQ) (2). Specification points covered: 4.3.1.3.
Q8 Assess how the rest of the world is affected by China's growth slowing to 5% in 2024.
Q9 Assess the gains from far more people moving into the EU, arrivals from outside it having doubled by 2022.
Q7(a) Work out Vietnam's 2023 foreign direct investment from its 2022 level and the 32.1% rise reported.
Q4 Identify a possible drawback of globalisation for the world economy.
Q10 Evaluate the gains a developed economy may draw from inward foreign direct investment, as in the USA and Australia.
Q9 Taking one country, evaluate whether globalisation's gains exceed its costs (context: international trade expanded considerably from 1970 to 2020).
Q3 136 countries agreed a 15% global minimum corporation tax in 2021. Identify which is also a measure governments may use to control transnational companies. (cutting bureaucracy costs / improving banking access / raising indirect taxes / regulating transfer pricing)
Q7(a) Using Figure 1, work out how tourist numbers changed in percentage terms across 2012 to 2017, setting out your method.
Q7(b) Taking Figure 1 with Extract A, analyse two ways Mauritius gains economically as visitor numbers climb.
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