4.10 Economic growth and/or economic development strategies
- Syllabus
- First assessment 2022
- Topic
- 4.10
- Level
- SL
• Trade strategies include import substitution, export promotion, and economic integration
• Diversification reduces dependence on narrow sectors or products
• Social enterprise can support growth and development goals
• Diagrams: draw from relevant diagrams used in other sections
• Market-based policies include trade liberalization, privatization, and deregulation
• These strategies aim to improve efficiency, incentives, and market access
• Interventionist policies include redistribution through tax policies, transfer payments, and minimum wages
• Merit good provision includes education, health, infrastructure, energy, transport, telecommunications, clean water, and sanitation
• Inward FDI can support growth and development
• Foreign aid includes humanitarian aid, development aid, debt relief, ODA, and NGO support
• Multilateral development assistance includes the World Bank and International Monetary Fund
• Institutional change includes improved access to banking, microfinance, and mobile banking
• Institutional strategies include women's empowerment, reducing corruption, property rights, and land rights
• Strategies should be evaluated for strengths and limitations in promoting growth and development
• Government intervention and market-oriented approaches should be compared in context
• Progress toward selected Sustainable Development Goals should be assessed in two or more countries