Supply-side policies

Q6(e) Discuss which supply-side measures Germany might adopt to lift its economic performance, drawing on Extract A.

Q6(g) Evaluate whether market-based supply-side measures can raise employment in the UK.

Q13 Assess measures aimed at the productive side of an economy for lifting employment, prompted by Colombia's fall to 55.3%.

Q2 Classify Brazil's 2022 move to cut red tape costs for firms (free market or interventionist supply-side, or fiscal).

Q12(e) Discuss how President Lula's proposed R$371bn supply-side programme might affect Brazilian living standards.

Q6(e) Discuss which supply-side measures the UK government might introduce in order to boost the rate of economic growth.

Q13 Evaluate supply-side measures for lifting growth while bringing inflation down, referring to a chosen country.

Q12(e) Discuss the UK's March 2023 measures aimed at raising the economy's productive potential.

Q2 Identify the free-market supply-side measure Japan could use to raise productivity (education / privatisation / infrastructure / start-up finance).

Q1(a) Explain one likely impact on UK aggregate supply of an interventionist supply-side policy (context: healthcare spending rising from £175.1bn to £219.9bn between 2019 and 2020).

Q1(b) Which option is also interventionist supply-side policy: cutting jobless benefits, deregulating product markets, expanding training schemes or raising corporation tax?

Q13 Evaluate supply-side measures a government might adopt to raise productivity, given Japan lagging behind the USA.

Q14 For a country you select, evaluate policy options for lifting employment, noting Australia's slide from 63% to 61.5% during late 2021.

Q12(c) Explain what 'productivity' means, as shown in Figure 1.

Q12(e) Discuss which supply-side policies might raise productivity if adopted by the UK Government.

Q6(g) Evaluate which supply-side measures the UK Government might deploy to lift productivity.

Q12(e) Discuss which interventionist supply-side measures Australia's government might adopt to lift productivity, drawing on Extract B.

Q14 Evaluate supply-side policies the Indian government could use to raise productivity (context: productivity up 5.2% in 2019 against the 6.3% needed for an 8% GDP growth target).

Q12(e) Discuss what interventionist supply-side policies are likely to achieve in East Africa, using Extracts A and B.

Q12(e) Discuss, with suitable diagrams and Extract A, whether supply-side measures could lift economic growth in the Philippines.

Q2(c) Which supply-side measure is market-based? (lower jobless benefits / new transport infrastructure / state-funded apprenticeships / extra health spending).

Q6(f) Evaluate which supply-side measures might lift the UK's economic growth rate.

Q14 Assess how well interventionist supply-side policies deliver growth, given Portugal's EUR20 billion programme for transport, energy and the environment unveiled in January 2019.

Q5 A UK windfarm subsidy and Ethiopian farm investment both count as interventionist supply-side measures; which fourth option matches — deregulation, privatisation, rate cuts or regional policy?

Q14 Evaluate supply-side measures such as education and training spending for cutting South Africa's 27.7% unemployment rate.

Q3(b) Choose the policy most likely to cut UK unemployment (lower corporation tax / less quantitative easing / more generous benefits / dearer borrowing).

Q4(a) A planned cut in the rate of corporation tax to 17% would be an example of: (contractionary monetary policy / an exchange rate policy / expansionary monetary policy / a supply-side policy)

Q4(b) On an AD/LRAS diagram, mark how policy encouraging firms to compete more would shift equilibrium real output and prices.

Q4(c) Pick out the interventionist supply-side measure (better infrastructure / higher indirect tax / dearer borrowing / tighter market regulation).

Q6(f) Evaluate non-migration policy options for lifting the share of UK adults in work.

Q2(e) Evaluate the probable micro and macro consequences of the supply-side reforms Indonesia has brought in recently.

Q6(e) Discuss whether Eurozone governments can raise growth through a looser fiscal stance and supply-side reform, as Extract A suggests.

Q6(e) Evaluate the policy options open to government for raising UK productivity.