Production possibility frontiers

Q11 Set out, with a labelled frontier sketch, what net inward migration of about a million people in 2023 does to US productive potential.

Q4 Deduce the sacrifice involved in moving between points on an economy's capital versus consumer goods frontier.

Q7 Sketch, with an arrow, how AI adding $7 trillion to China's output by 2030 shifts its production possibility frontier.

Q2(b) Choose, from four production possibility frontier diagrams, the one showing how a cyclone would hit Madagascar's economy.

Q13 Evaluate what could push a country's production possibility frontier outwards, given UN population forecasts to 2100.

Q6 Deduce which movement on a small country's PPF carries an opportunity cost or changes efficiency.

Q2 Identify what might explain a country's shrinking maximum output of consumer and capital goods from 2021 to 2022.

Q2(a) From a wheat-versus-oats PPF, calculate what a farmer gives up by moving from X to Y to harvest 6 wheat units.

Q2(b) Explain what producing at W, a point inside the PPF, means for efficiency next year.

Q2(c) Which of the following would most likely help the farmer reach point Z (outside the current PPF)?

Q5(b) Take the economy to be at point W; annotate the production possibility frontier to show what producing extra consumer goods sacrifices.

Q6 A small country's production possibility frontier is drawn; decide what it implies about efficiency, unemployment, opportunity cost and feasible movements.

Q4 An economy sits at point X on its production possibility frontier: work out what follows about opportunity cost, growth and attainable points.

Q7 In 2018 Germany saw 1.59 million arrivals against 1.19 million leaving; draw its production possibility frontier, arrowing how that population change shifts it.

Q5 On a PPF showing capital versus consumer goods, select the point that would deliver the quickest economic growth.

Q3 Choose, from four production possibility frontier diagrams, the one showing how the 2015 Nepal earthquake hit an economy running efficiently at full employment.

Q7 Draw a diagram to show the likely impact of population growth on Qatar's production possibility frontier.

Q2(b) Pick, from the four offered, the production possibility frontier diagram that best captures what a disaster such as Hurricane Harvey does to the US economy.

Q11 Lithuania held 3.7 million people in 1989 but 2.9 million by 2015: explain, with a diagram and ceteris paribus, the effect on its production possibility frontier.

Q1 Identify which of four production possibility frontier diagrams shows Singapore's expected population increase of 90 000 with the economy still at maximum productive potential.

Q1(a) Work out how the opportunity cost of 50 capital goods changes once the production possibility frontier moves from XY to XZ.

Q1(b) Pick the reason that best explains why the production possibility frontier has shifted from XY to XZ.

Q1(c) Give and explain one feature of an economy sitting at point W, inside its production possibility frontier.

Q5(b) Mark on the BBC's production possibility frontier, starting from point W, what extra educational programming costs in forgone output.

Q1(a) Use marginal analysis of a production possibility frontier table to explain what opportunity cost involves.

Q1(b) Select the most likely consequence when an economy makes more capital goods (less labour specialisation / a PPF shift / lower marginal utility / changed consumer-goods demand).