UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary Level and Advanced Level

ECONOMICS Paper 4 Data Response and Essays (Supplement) Additional Materials: Answer Booklet/Paper

9708/42
October/November 2009 2 hours 15 minutes

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READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST If you have been given an Answer Booklet, follow the instructions on the front cover of the Booklet. Write your Centre number, candidate number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen. You may use a soft pencil for any diagrams, graphs or rough working. Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer any two questions. You may answer with reference to your own economy or other economies that you have studied where relevant to the question. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question.

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2 Section A Answer this question. 1 Resources wasted on bottled water In developed countries drinking bottled water has become fashionable; the practice of carrying a small bottle of water is very common. However, it costs much more than water from a tap but often cannot be distinguished from such tap water. Some brands contain the same chemicals as tap water which people think they have paid to avoid. There is now a campaign to stop selling bottled water in restaurants and supply only tap water. A spokesman said ‘in the UK, in 2006, 3 billion litres of bottled water were sold. They were advertised as ‘pure as a mountain stream’ or ‘cleansed for 2 million years beneath a Siberian glacier’. Buying such water is a vanity. It is flown around the world to the UK from Norway, France, Japan and Fiji. It is bottled in glass that is mostly