25 marks
Q2(d) Evaluate the micro and macro explanations put forward for poverty declining in India.
Edexcel · 9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14
Poverty comes up in 6 questions across the Edexcel A Level, AS and International A Level past papers (9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14), worth 43 marks between them. They run from 2018 to 2025 and appear on A Level Paper 2, A Level Paper 3, International A Level Unit 4, International A Level Unit 4A.
Tariffs run from 1 to 25 marks. The commonest instructions are Explain (4), Evaluate (1), Identify (MCQ) (1). Specification points covered: 4.2.1, 4.3.4.1.
Q2(d) Evaluate the micro and macro explanations put forward for poverty declining in India.
Q7(d) Say what absolute poverty means, as used of the 53% of Argentinians in it by mid-2024.
Q7(b) Explain the meaning of absolute poverty, as used about the share of Vietnamese living in it.
Q5 Identify the true statement about absolute poverty, given Madagascar's 71% rate in 2022.
Q7(c) Say what relative poverty means, as the term appears in Extract A.
Q6(a) Drawing on the material supplied, explain how absolute poverty differs from relative poverty.
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