What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past IB Economics papers and filtered to equity in the distribution of income. 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 equity in the distribution of income, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Treating equity and equality as synonyms.
- Confusing income (a flow) with wealth (a stock).
- Saying a higher Gini means less inequality, it means more.
- Confusing absolute with relative poverty, or claiming growth eliminates relative poverty.
- Confusing progressive with proportional taxation. Progressive means the average rate rises with income.
- Judging whether a tax is regressive by the amount paid rather than the share of income.
- Reading a Lorenz point as a share of the population rather than a cumulative income share.
- Listing policies without weighing them against the efficiency trade-off.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Equity in the Distribution of Income revision notes.