What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past IB Economics papers and filtered to economic development strategies. 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 economic development strategies, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Recommending a strategy without reference to the barrier it is supposed to remove.
- Treating aid as automatically good or automatically harmful instead of stating the conditions under which it works.
- Forgetting profit repatriation when evaluating foreign direct investment.
- Presenting import substitution and export promotion as evenly balanced without engaging with the historical record.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Economic Development Strategies revision notes.