Q1 Pick which item leaks out of the circular flow of income (Exports / Savings / Investment / Consumption).
Edexcel · 9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14
Injections & withdrawals comes up in 15 questions across the Edexcel A Level, AS and International A Level past papers (9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14), worth 37 marks between them. They run from 2016 to 2025 and appear on AS Level Paper 2, International A Level Unit 2.
Tariffs run from 1 to 8 marks. The commonest instructions are Identify (MCQ) (10), Analyse (2), Examine (2). Specification points covered: 2.3.4.2, 2.4.2.
Q1 Pick which item leaks out of the circular flow of income (Exports / Savings / Investment / Consumption).
Q12(c) Analyse how extra foreign tourists arriving in Japan feed through its circular flow, with a diagram.
Q12(d) Examine what tighter tax-and-spend plans do to the circular flow of income in Brazil.
Q1 Identify which of four flows adds to the circular flow of income (Investment / Savings / Imports / Consumption).
Q12(d) Examine how expansionary fiscal measures would work through China's circular flow of income.
Q1 Identify which of these is a leakage out of the circular flow (Investment / Consumption / Savings / Exports).
Q3 Saudi Arabia forecasts 2022 spending of $255 billion and tax revenue of $279 billion - which statement is then valid, ceteris paribus?
Q5 The Dutch savings ratio rose from 15.3% to 24.3% during 2020. Identify the most likely effect, ceteris paribus.
Q12(d) Drawing on Extract A, analyse what France's April 2020 trade balance would do to its circular flow of income.
Q3 Russian government expenditure rose by 25 billion roubles from Q1 to Q2 2020. Identify the most likely effect, ceteris paribus.
Q6 Using a table of an economy's injections and withdrawals in one year, identify what can be concluded about the budget balance, trade balance and net injection or withdrawal.
Q3 Identify which option represents an injection rather than a withdrawal in the circular flow of income (savings / exports / imports / taxation).
Q3 Besides UK spending on the HS2 railway, select the other item that injects money into the circular flow (imports; exports; saving; income tax receipts).
Q1(a) State what an injection means, set against the £9.3bn spend on a second Gatwick runway.
Q1(b) Pick, from four listed flows, the one counting as an injection to the circular flow of income (taxes / imports / investment / saving).
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