Evaluate the impact of international and inter-American trade on the development of two countries of the Americas.

In the development of any two countries, candidates will make an appraisal of the beneficial and detrimental effects of trade within the Americas and with other regions of the world. In doing so, they must provide specific examples of the ways in which trade helped and hindered progress in the selected countries. Issues that may be evaluated include patterns of export-led development and their contribution toward overspecialization and monoculture, the contribution of foreign investment to the development of infrastructure and the extraction of natural resources but with potential for consequent dependency and debt, fluctuations in demand for particular resources that often created “boom and bust” economic results, the tendency of US and British companies to dominate the trade relationship with other countries of the Americas and the impact of resource development on population movement and urban development.