IB Economics HL 4.9.1 Poverty traps & poverty cycles
IB Economics HL 4.9.1 Poverty traps & poverty cycles
Students practise drawing and labelling poverty cycle diagrams—and explaining how specific interventions (e.g. Hustler Fund, remittances, rural finance) disrupt low-income…
How this is tested
- sketch a poverty cycle diagram beginning and ending with low incomes, then indicate where foreign aid
- explain how Kenya’s Hustler Fund expands credit access and supports small firms
- use a poverty cycle diagram to show how free education raises future earnings, breaking intergenerational