Public expenditure

Q10 Assess the effects of state spending taking a bigger share of output, as Italy's rose to 56.7% by 2022.

Q7(e) Discuss what Argentina's cut in state spending from 38% to 32% of GDP is likely to do to its economy.

Q10 Evaluate why state spending rises relative to national output in a chosen developing country, as in Azerbaijan and India.

Q2 Classify Brazil's $160m outlay on 762 infrastructure schemes in 2022 (transfer payments / current / capital / consumer).

Q2 Identify the category of state spending represented by Australia's $13.6bn infrastructure programme.

Q6(e) Discuss what the UK economy gains from higher infrastructure spending (Extract B); an AD/AS diagram must support the answer.

Q4(b) Classify public outlays devoted to the High Speed 2 rail link (automatic stabilisers / capital spending / current spending / transfers).

Q1 French public spending slipped to 55.6% of GDP by 2019 from 57.2% in 2014; identify the probable effect (less unemployment / less crowding out / more injections / more inflationary pressure).

Q5 Finland's forecast age distribution for 2010 to 2070 is charted; pick the supported claim about welfare spending, the working population, labour shortages and the tax burden.

Q10 Spain cut public spending from 48.1% of GDP in 2012 to 41.3% by 2018: evaluate such a fall's economic effects in a developed country you choose.

Q2(b) Identify which rise in spending counts as infrastructure investment (new railway construction / national debt interest / teacher pay / jobless benefits).

Q5(a) From the chart of projected UK public spending across 2015/16 and 2016/17, pick the conclusion that follows.

Q5(b) With UK public spending projected at £772bn for 2016/17, express social protection outlay as a share of that total.

Q2(e) Evaluate, micro and macro, a choice to shrink the fiscal deficit by cutting public spending instead of lifting taxes.