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Q2(c) Name one way foreign direct investment can help an economy.
Edexcel · 4EC1
Foreign direct investment comes up in 9 questions across the Edexcel International GCSE past papers (4EC1), worth 42 marks between them. They run from 2020 to 2025 and appear on iGCSE Paper 2, iGCSE Paper 2R.
Tariffs run from 1 to 12 marks. The commonest instructions are Identify (MCQ) (3), Evaluate (2), Analyse (2). Specification points covered: 2.2.1.
Q2(c) Name one way foreign direct investment can help an economy.
Q3(a) Multiple choice picking the example of foreign direct investment.
Q4(c) Data response: weigh up what rising foreign direct investment brings - Kazakhstan case.
Q3(b) Multiple choice on a drawback of foreign direct investment.
Q3(a) Multiple choice picking the example of foreign direct investment.
Q4(a) Work out to 2 d.p. India's average annual foreign direct investment in $bn from 2016 to 2019.
Q4(c) Data response: weigh up what foreign direct investment brings - India case.
Q1(h) Data response: what foreign direct investment brings - Ireland case.
Q3(d) Data response: why a multinational would invest in Bangladesh.
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