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Q1(a) Multiple choice on why a government targets poverty and inequality.
Edexcel · 4EC1
Poverty comes up in 19 questions across the Edexcel International GCSE past papers (4EC1), worth 55 marks between them. They run from 2019 to 2024 and appear on iGCSE Paper 2, iGCSE Paper 2R.
Tariffs run from 1 to 9 marks. The commonest instructions are Identify (MCQ) (4), Define (4), Explain (4). Specification points covered: 2.1.1, 2.1.2.
Q1(a) Multiple choice on why a government targets poverty and inequality.
Q4(b) Data response: how state benefits cut poverty - India case.
Q2(d) Give the meaning of relative poverty.
Q1(c) Give the meaning of income inequality.
Q4(a) Work out to 2 d.p. the share of Kazakhstan's population in relative poverty in 2022.
Q2(e) Give one way education and training bear on inequality and poverty.
Q1(g) Give one reason the Scottish Government pays benefits.
Q3(b) Multiple choice naming the term for lacking the resources to meet basic needs.
Q2(e) Give one reason the Scottish Government targets poverty and inequality.
Q1(d) Set out why governments pay benefits.
Q1(d) Set out how education bears on inequality and poverty.
Q3(e) Data response: benefit payments as a way of redistributing UK income.
Q2(b) Multiple choice naming the term for living below the social average.
Q2(b) Multiple choice on what is likely to cause poverty.
Q2(g) Data response: benefit payments as a way of redistributing income - Canada case.
Q2(c) Name one reason governments target poverty and inequality.
Q2(d) Give the meaning of relative poverty.
Q2(d) Give the meaning of absolute poverty.
Q3(c) Give one way a government cuts inequality and poverty.
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