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Ch 29 4.9 Barriers to economic growth and/or economic development: complete notes
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Topics in this chapter
- What you must be able to do
- Poverty traps and poverty cycles AO2 AO4
- Economic barriers (1): people, places and prices AO2
- Economic barriers (2): markets, money and debt AO2
- Geography, climate and disease AO2
- Political and social barriers AO2
- Significance of the different barriers AO3
“I can” checklist: what you must be able to do
- I can explain and draw a poverty cycle (or trap) with any linked combination of factors.
- I can explain the economic barriers: inequality, infrastructure and technology, human capital, primary dependence, market access, the informal economy, capital flight and indebtedness.
- I can explain geographic barriers: landlocked position, tropical climates and endemic disease.
- I can explain political and social barriers: weak institutions (legal system, taxation, banking, property rights), gender inequality, corruption and unequal power.
- I can calculate the debt service ratio and use simple figures to show the size of a barrier.
- I can evaluate the significance of different barriers for a named country, with interactions and a judgement.
What is inside the full chapter notes
- Concept notes with 8 worked examples (every number computed)
- Diagrams: two poverty cycles (AO4), map of barriers
- Every barrier in the guide grouped as economic, geographic or political and social, with evidence
- AO3 page on judging significance and interactions
- 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