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ZIMSEC A-Level Economics

8.5Balance of payments

Balance of payments in ZIMSEC A-Level Economics: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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Learning objectives

What the syllabus expects you to be able to do.

  1. 8.5.1Examine the components of the balance of payments: current account, capital account and balance for official financing.
  2. 8.5.2Calculate balance of payments figures and assess surplus and deficit.

Lessons

  • The current account of the balance of payments

    55 min

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  • The full balance of payments: current, capital and financial accounts

    50 min

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Balance of payments: sample question

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A foreign company builds a factory in a country. In that country's balance of payments this is recorded in the

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