Economics 9708 · AS & A Level · Balance of payments

Balance of payments — practice question

(a)[5]
  • What do nominal prices and real prices mean? [2]
  • Compare the changes in nominal food prices and real food prices before and after the year 2000. [3]
(b)[5]
  • How could the differences in food weights shown in Table 1 be explained? [3]
  • Contrast how the rate of inflation would be affected in Kenya and in the UK if food prices in each country rose by 20%. [2]
(c)[4]

Explain one possible reason why the IFPRI reported world food supply as responsive to changes in price.

(d)[6]

Discuss the benefits and disadvantages of rising world food prices.

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