Economics 9708 · AS & A Level · 6.5

6.5 — practice question

A country has experienced a current account deficit on the balance of payments for a long time. The government was applying an expenditure-switching policy, but it now intends to move to an expenditure-reducing policy. What might the former policy have been, and what might its new policy be?

  • Aold policy: export subsidies; new policy: quotas
  • Bold policy: income tax; new policy: interest rate
  • Cold policy: quotas; new policy: exchange rate control
  • Dold policy: tariffs; new policy: income tax

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