Edexcel · 4EC1

Globalisation

18questions
64marks
12series
2019–2025years

Globalisation comes up in 18 questions across the Edexcel International GCSE past papers (4EC1), worth 64 marks between them. They run from 2019 to 2025 and appear on iGCSE Paper 2, iGCSE Paper 2R.

Tariffs run from 1 to 12 marks. The commonest instructions are Identify (MCQ) (6), Analyse (3), Explain (3). Specification points covered: 2.2.1.

Open these in the searchable bank →

June 2025 3 questions

1 markiGCSE · Paper 2

Q1(a) Multiple choice on the most likely driver of increased globalisation (tariffs, transport costs, multinationals or communication costs).

2.2.1GlobalisationIdentify (MCQ)Multiple choice
2 marksiGCSE · Paper 2R

Q4(a) Work out to 2 d.p. what share of Ghana's population worked on small cocoa farms in 2024.

2.2.1GlobalisationCalculateShort answer
12 marksiGCSE · Paper 2R

Q4(c) Data response: weigh up what globalisation does for Ghana's cocoa farmers (context: farmers on $2 a day against 16% profit growth for chocolate manufacturers).

2.2.1GlobalisationEvaluateData response essay

Nov 2024 2 questions

2 marksiGCSE · Paper 2

Q1(d) Set out how cheaper communication has driven globalisation.

2.2.1GlobalisationDescribeShort answer
1 markiGCSE · Paper 2

Q2(c) Name one way globalisation affects consumers.

2.2.1GlobalisationStateShort answer

June 2024 3 questions

1 markiGCSE · Paper 2

Q2(a) Multiple choice on what cheaper transport and communications do to an economy.

2.2.1GlobalisationIdentify (MCQ)Multiple choice
6 marksiGCSE · Paper 2

Q3(d) Data response: how consumers gain from globalisation (context: $29 trillion of world trade).

2.2.1GlobalisationAnalyseData response essay
6 marksiGCSE · Paper 2R

Q3(d) Data response: how globalisation benefits clothing manufacturers.

2.2.1GlobalisationAnalyseData response essay

Nov 2023 1 question

1 markiGCSE · Paper 2

Q2(b) Multiple choice on the most likely driver of increased globalisation.

2.2.1GlobalisationIdentify (MCQ)Multiple choice

June 2023 1 question

2 marksiGCSE · Paper 2

Q1(d) Give the meaning of globalisation.

2.2.1GlobalisationDefineShort answer

Jan 2023 1 question

1 markiGCSE · Paper 2

Q3(b) Multiple choice on an effect of globalisation.

2.2.1GlobalisationIdentify (MCQ)Multiple choice

June 2022 1 question

1 markiGCSE · Paper 2

Q2(a) Multiple choice completing a statement about what globalisation increases.

2.2.1GlobalisationIdentify (MCQ)Multiple choice

Nov 2021 1 question

3 marksiGCSE · Paper 2

Q2(f) Give one reason cheaper transport has driven globalisation.

2.2.1GlobalisationExplainShort answer

June 2021 1 question

3 marksiGCSE · Paper 2

Q2(f) Give one reason cheaper communication has driven globalisation.

2.2.1GlobalisationExplainShort answer

Nov 2020 2 questions

6 marksiGCSE · Paper 2

Q1(h) Data response: how cheaper transport has driven globalisation.

2.2.1GlobalisationAnalyseData response essay
3 marksiGCSE · Paper 2R

Q3(c) Give one way globalisation has affected US consumers.

2.2.1GlobalisationExplainShort answer

Jan 2020 1 question

12 marksiGCSE · Paper 2

Q4(c) Data response: weigh up what globalisation brings Kenya's flower industry.

2.2.1GlobalisationEvaluateData response essay

June 2019 1 question

1 markiGCSE · Paper 2

Q1(a) Multiple choice naming the growing integration and interdependence of economies.

2.2.1GlobalisationIdentify (MCQ)Multiple choice

Related topics

About this page. Each question is described in our own words — a short summary of what it asks, never the examiner’s wording. No exam paper text, extract, figure or table is reproduced. The links go to the awarding body’s own question paper, mark scheme and examiner report, published free by Pearson and AQA. Specification codes and topic labels are our own classification.

Built and checked by an experienced economics tutor. Not a Pearson or AQA service and not endorsed by either board. © The Economics Tutor · theeconomicstutor.co.uk