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A need is essential for living, such as safe water, food, shelter and basic clothing. Wants improve satisfaction but are not essential and can change with income, fashion and technology.
Higher demand raises price and potential profit, giving firms an incentive to expand capacity. The response depends on costs, finance and how quickly resources can move.
The data show quantity demanded falling as price rises, so plotting price vertically and quantity horizontally produces a downward-sloping demand curve.
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Correct answer: Safe drinking water
A need is essential for living, such as safe water, food, shelter and basic clothing. Wants improve satisfaction but are not essential and can change with income, fashion and technology.
Correct answer: Firms may add bicycles and staff if expected profit rises
Higher demand raises price and potential profit, giving firms an incentive to expand capacity. The response depends on costs, finance and how quickly resources can move.
Correct answer: Downward sloping from left to right
The data show quantity demanded falling as price rises, so plotting price vertically and quantity horizontally produces a downward-sloping demand curve.
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The household acts as a consumer, the bakery as a producer and the state as government collecting tax. Economic activity links all three groups through spending, production and public finance.
Watch for: Do not stop after the first effect of Economic foundations. Build the chain of reasoning, use the context and explain what could weaken or reverse the outcome.
Rising incomes increase demand for services such as finance, health and leisure, while productivity and global sourcing reduce the relative share of primary and manufacturing employment.
Watch for: Do not stop after the first effect of Resource allocation. Build the chain of reasoning, use the context and explain what could weaken or reverse the outcome.
Markets are interdependent through supply chains and consumer relationships. An input shortage can raise downstream costs, while price changes can shift demand between substitutes and complements.
Watch for: Do not stop after the first effect of How prices are determined. Build the chain of reasoning, use the context and explain what could weaken or reverse the outcome.
Producer motives can conflict with moral and social interests. Enforcement, clean-up, reputation, stakeholder response and external damage make the apparent saving incomplete and potentially unsustainable.
Watch for: Do not stop after the first effect of Production, costs, revenue and profit. Build the chain of reasoning, use the context and explain what could weaken or reverse the outcome.
Competition can create jobs and reward productivity, but intense cost pressure may contribute to restructuring, work intensity or insecure conditions. Outcomes depend on labour-market power and regulation.
Watch for: Do not stop after the first effect of Competitive and concentrated markets. Build the chain of reasoning, use the context and explain what could weaken or reverse the outcome.
If producers and consumers face only private cost, decisions ignore external harm. The market price is too low relative to full social cost and equilibrium output is higher than socially desirable.
Watch for: Do not stop after the first effect of Market failure. Build the chain of reasoning, use the context and explain what could weaken or reverse the outcome.
Higher rates increase returns to saving and the cost of new or variable-rate borrowing. Many consumers therefore postpone purchases and reduce credit-financed spending.
Watch for: Do not stop after the first effect of Introduction to the national economy. Build the chain of reasoning, use the context and explain what could weaken or reverse the outcome.
The project may raise output and employment but impose environmental costs on local communities and future generations. Policy evaluation should consider distribution and sustainability.
Watch for: Do not stop after the first effect of Government objectives. Build the chain of reasoning, use the context and explain what could weaken or reverse the outcome.
A price incentive can change behaviour, regulation can set minimum standards, information can correct misunderstanding and subsidies can ease adoption. Coordination is needed to avoid unnecessary cost or contradiction.
Watch for: Do not stop after the first effect of How the government manages the economy. Build the chain of reasoning, use the context and explain what could weaken or reverse the outcome.
Lower cost can improve competitiveness and consumer prices, but jobs, communities, labour standards, emissions and supply resilience must be considered. The balance depends on evidence and safeguards.
Watch for: Do not stop after the first effect of International trade and the global economy. Build the chain of reasoning, use the context and explain what could weaken or reverse the outcome.
By assessing and directing funds toward productive investment, financial institutions can support capital formation, innovation and productivity. Poor lending decisions can instead create losses and instability.
Watch for: Do not stop after the first effect of The role of money and financial markets. Build the chain of reasoning, use the context and explain what could weaken or reverse the outcome.
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AQA · GCSE · Economics · 8136
Version 1.0, 21 July 2016; first teaching 2017; current checked 27 August 2026
Source checked: 2026-08-27. The current official specification controls assessment requirements and option choices.
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