Paper 4: A Level Data Response and Essays · 9708/42

Cambridge International (CAIE) A-level Paper 4, June 2025

All 8 written questions from Cambridge International (CAIE) A-level Paper 4 (June 2025), A Level Data Response and Essays. Case studies: Global carbon emissions. Each question shows its marks and topic, and opens the question paper and mark scheme at the right page.

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Section A

Case study

Global carbon emissions

In the extracts: World Climate Summit

Q1(a)Define2 marks

Define economic sustainability and give one example from the information of a change that can be used to illustrate it.

TopicEconomic growth and sustainability

Question paper p.3 Mark scheme p.9 Open in the tool

Q1(b)Comment4 marks

Use the information to comment on the possible effects on the economies of the countries that refused to sign the carbon policy agreement.

TopicGlobalisation7.4 Private costs and benefits, externalities and social costs and benefits

Question paper p.3 Mark scheme p.9 Open in the tool

Q1(c)Discuss4 marks

Discuss why the article says that ‘China is a country of contradictions’.

TopicEconomic growth and sustainability

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Q1(d)Discuss10 marks

With the help of a marginal social cost and benefit diagram discuss whether the continued use of coal to produce electricity makes the achievement of allocative efficiency less likely.

TopicPrivate costs and benefits, externalities and social costs and benefits7.3 Efficiency and market failure

Question paper p.3 Mark scheme p.10 Open in the tool Draw it: negative externality diagram

Section B

Q2OptionalAssess20 marks

Monopolies restrict output to raise prices to exploit consumers. With the help of a diagram, assess the extent to which a government should intervene in monopoly markets.

TopicGovernment policies to achieve efficient resource allocation and correct market failure

Question paper p.4 Mark scheme p.11 Open in the tool Draw it: monopoly diagram

Q3OptionalAssess20 marks

With the help of a diagram, assess whether the impact of an increase in labour productivity on the wages and employment of a firm is likely to be greater in a perfectly competitive labour market than in an imperfectly competitive labour market.

TopicLabour market forces and government intervention7.6 Different market structures

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Section C

Q4OptionalAssess20 marks

With the help of an injections and withdrawals graph, assess the impact of a decrease in interest rates on the level of employment in an economy.

TopicThe circular flow of income9.3 Employment and unemployment

Question paper p.4 Mark scheme p.15 Open in the tool Practise the multiplier diagram

Q5OptionalEvaluate20 marks

Globalisation will have an equally beneficial effect on the standard of living in both high-income and low-income countries. Evaluate this statement.

TopicGlobalisation11.3 Economic development11.4 Characteristics of countries at different levels of development

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Section A

Global carbon emissions

Section B

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