9 marks
Q3(e) Data response: what Indonesia gains from higher government healthcare spending (context: a rise from $114 to $269 per head).
Edexcel · 4EC1
Government spending comes up in 18 questions across the Edexcel International GCSE past papers (4EC1), worth 115 marks between them. They run from 2019 to 2025 and appear on iGCSE Paper 1, iGCSE Paper 1R, iGCSE Paper 2, iGCSE Paper 2R.
Tariffs run from 1 to 12 marks. The commonest instructions are Assess (7), Explain (3), Evaluate (2). Specification points covered: 1.1.6, 1.2.6, 2.1.2.
Q3(e) Data response: what Indonesia gains from higher government healthcare spending (context: a rise from $114 to $269 per head).
Q2(e) Give one route by which state healthcare cuts poverty (context: 4.5bn people without access).
Q4(c) Data response: state-run national parks as environmental protection - Costa Rica.
Q3(b) Multiple choice on why a government provides public parks.
Q2(e) Give one way infrastructure spending helps an economy such as the US.
Q3(d) Data response: what healthcare investment does - China case.
Q4(a) Work out to 2 d.p. renewable energy's share of India's infrastructure spending in 2019.
Q4(c) Data response: will infrastructure spending raise Indian output?
Q2(g) Data response: does infrastructure spending cut Canadian unemployment?
Q2(g) Data response: healthcare investment as a way of cutting inequality and poverty.
Q3(e) Data response: what Norway gains from state-funded education throughout.
Q1(g) Give one benefit to government of providing public parks.
Q3(d) Data response: why a government would raise healthcare investment.
Q3(e) Data response: how far road investment benefits the Cambodian economy.
Q2(d) Give the meaning of infrastructure.
Q4(a) Work out to 2 d.p. the percentage change in US education spending from 2017 to 2018.
Q2(g) Data response: whether funding a national flu vaccination programme is justified.
Q2(g) Data response: should the state supply more parkland and open space?
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