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Ch 27 4.7 Sustainable development: complete notes
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Topics in this chapter
- What you must be able to do
- The meaning of sustainable development AO2
- Why sustainability is hard to achieve: constraints AO2 AO3
- The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) AO2
- The relationship between sustainability and poverty AO2
- Evaluating the pursuit of sustainability AO3
- Policy tools that link to other chapters
“I can” checklist: what you must be able to do
- I can define sustainable development and explain its economic, social and environmental parts and intergenerational equity.
- I can explain why renewable resources can still be used unsustainably, using a regrowth versus harvest comparison.
- I can explain constraints on sustainability (costs, trade-offs, short time horizons, global free-riding, poverty, institutions).
- I can describe the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and link them to economic ideas.
- I can explain synergies and trade-offs between goals and judge progress with required versus achieved pace.
- I can use an externality diagram to show how unsustainable production arises.
- HL: I can explain the two-way relationship between sustainability and poverty.
- I can evaluate whether sustainability and growth can be pursued together and reach a judgement.
What is inside the full chapter notes
- Concept notes with 6 worked examples (every number computed)
- Diagrams: the three pillars, an externality diagram for unsustainable production, an HL poverty and environment cycle
- The 17 SDGs grouped, with links to micro and macro ideas
- "Applying it" boxes with AO2 explanations and AO3 evaluation
- Common mistakes and a "How to score" command-term box
- 12 Quick-check questions A-D, explained
- Paper 1 style (a) 10 + (b) 15 with mark scheme and markbands
- Paper 2 style data response (32 marks) with mark scheme
- Quick reference and "I can" checklist
What you get in the pack
- All 30 topics of IB Diploma Economics for students taking Standard Level or Higher Level (first assessment 2022): what economics is, demand, supply, market equilibrium, behavioural economics, elasticity, government intervention, externalities, public goods, asymmetric information, market power, equity, measuring economic activity, aggregate demand and supply, macroeconomic objectives, inequality and poverty, monetary policy, fiscal policy, supply-side policies, international trade, trade protection, economic integration, exchange rates, balance of payments, sustainable development, measuring development, growth and development strategies
- Every syllabus statement covered in order, each marked SL or HL, with clear notes, tables and diagrams drawn for these notes
- Every diagram the guide names, drawn and labelled, plus worked examples and model answers that show how to earn the marks
- Quick-check multiple-choice questions with explained answers, plus original Paper 1 (extended response), Paper 2 (data response) and, for HL, Paper 3 (policy) style questions with full mark schemes (no past-paper reprints)
- Common mistakes and a how-to-score command-term guide for every topic
- Quick-reference sheet and an "I can" checklist at the end of every topic
- Colour PDF and a black and white copy of every chapter for printing
- Independent notes for IB Diploma students; not endorsed by or affiliated with the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO)
All chapters in this pack
- Ch 1 1.1-1.2 What is economics? and How do economists approach the world?
- Ch 2 2.1 Demand
- Ch 3 2.2 Supply
- Ch 4 2.3 Competitive market equilibrium
- Ch 5 2.4 Critique of the maximizing behaviour of consumers and producers
- Ch 6 2.5 Elasticity of demand
- Ch 7 2.6 Elasticity of supply
- Ch 8 2.7 Role of government in microeconomics
- Ch 9 2.8 Market failure: externalities and common pool resources
- Ch 10 2.9 Market failure: public goods
- Ch 11 2.10 Market failure: asymmetric information (HL)
- Ch 12 2.11 Market failure: market power (HL)
- Ch 13 2.12 The market's inability to achieve equity (HL)
- Ch 14 3.1 Measuring economic activity and illustrating its variations
- Ch 15 3.2 Aggregate demand and aggregate supply
- Ch 16 3.3 Macroeconomic objectives
- Ch 17 3.4 Economics of inequality and poverty
- Ch 18 3.5 Demand management: monetary policy
- Ch 19 3.6 Demand management: fiscal policy
- Ch 20 3.7 Supply-side policies
- Ch 21 4.1 Benefits of international trade
- Ch 22 4.2 Types of trade protection
- Ch 23 4.3 Arguments for and against trade control and protection
- Ch 24 4.4 Economic integration
- Ch 25 4.5 Exchange rates
- Ch 26 4.6 Balance of payments
- Ch 27 4.7 Sustainable development
- Ch 28 4.8 Measuring development
- Ch 29 4.9 Barriers to economic growth and/or economic development
- Ch 30 4.10 Economic growth and/or economic development strategies