What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past Edexcel IGCSE papers and filtered to balance of payments and development. You answer, you find out immediately whether you were right, and you get the reasoning for the correct option and for each distractor. Wrong answers go to a mistakes locker so you can come back to exactly those.
Practice is free. You need an account only so your progress and your mistakes are still there next time.
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What examiners see students get wrong here
These are the errors that cost marks on balance of payments and development, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Treating growth and development as the same thing.
- Forgetting primary and secondary income in the current account, especially remittances.
- Saying GDP per capita measures living standards accurately.
- Naming only two HDI components, or saying HDI uses GDP, it uses GNI per capita at PPP.
- Treating a current account deficit as automatically harmful, without asking what is causing it.
- Presenting aid or FDI as entirely good, without the drawbacks.
- Forgetting population growth when discussing living standards.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Balance of Payments and Development revision notes.