0455.6.2.2 — role of multinational companies (MNCs) MNCs and the costs and benefits to their host and home countries.: past paper questions
Real questions on 0455.6.2.2 — role of multinational companies (mncs) mncs and the costs and benefits to their host and home countries.
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- 0455/23 · May/June 2026 · Q2a[2]
Define ‘multinational companies’.
See it on the paper → - 0455/21 · May/June 2025 · Q5a[2]
Identify two benefits an MNC may provide for its home country.
See it on the paper → - 0455/11 · October/November 2024 · Q28[1]
What is a possible cost of this new factory to the host country?
See it on the paper → - 0455/21 · May/June 2024 · Q4d[8]
Discuss whether or not a foreign multinational company (MNC) will continue to produce in a host country for many years.
See it on the paper → - 0455/23 · October/November 2022 · Q3b[4]
Explain two benefits of MNCs to their home countries.
See it on the paper → - 0455/23 · May/June 2022 · Q2c[6]
Analyse why few MNCs may choose to locate in a particular region.
See it on the paper → - 0455/11 · October/November 2021 · Q29[1]
Why do some governments limit the operations of multinational companies (MNCs) within their domestic economy?
See it on the paper → - 0455/22 · May/June 2021 · Q4d[8]
Discuss whether or not MNCs improve the economic performance of the host countries in which they operate.
See it on the paper → - 0455/21 · October/November 2020 · Q1g[6]
whether or not Istanbul benefits from investment by MNCs.
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What examiners said
Candidates found this item the most challenging of all the two mark questions. The most common answers were ‘provide jobs’ and ‘profits’. Many scored 1 or 0 marks, often identifying ‘reputation’ as a response or other incorrect factors that do not provide a benefit for an MNC’s home country.
— Examiner report, May/June 2025, 0455/21 Q5(a) (Cambridge)
Generally this was poorly answered, as many candidates did not make clear the nature of the benefit that the MNC gained for the home country. Many answers were written giving the benefits which would apply in a host country rather than the home country. A few strong answers did make clear that the home country was the place of origin of the MNC where the firm had its headquarters rather than just...
— Examiner report, October/November 2022, 0455/23 Q3(b) (Cambridge)
As noted above, a large number of candidates read this question as ‘why MNCs may choose to locate’ rather than ‘why few MNCs may choose to locate’ and so it was answered from the opposite point of view. Answers that had misinterpreted the question in this way were accepted but it was difficult for them to analyse the question in the way that had been intended. Good candidates tended to identify t...
— Examiner report, May/June 2022, 0455/23 Q2(c) (Cambridge)
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