What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past IB Economics papers and filtered to barriers to 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 barriers to development, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Listing barriers without saying which one binds for the specific economy in the data.
- Presenting the poverty trap as a single mechanism when the savings gap, foreign exchange gap and human capital gap each drive it.
- Ignoring institutions, which condition whether any strategy in 4.10 can work.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Barriers to Development revision notes.