waecE-LEARNING
Economics Paper 2, May/June 2010  
Questions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Main
General Comments
Weakness/Remedies
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Question 6

(a) Explain. with examples, the following types of production:
(i) Primary;
(ii) Secondary;
(iii) Tertiary.

(b) Give two reasons why primary production pre-dominates in developing countries.

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Observation

The question was very popular among candidates and performance was high and quite encouraging. However, some candidates had difficulty with thetb) pan or the question. they could not give reasons why primary production pre-dominates in developing countries. This led to low scores by candidates in this category. These candidates were expected to writc down any two of the following in details:
(i)  inadequate capital;
(ii) low technology;
(iii) shortage of relevant skills:
(iv) inadequate infrastructure:
(v) inadequate entrepreneurial capacity:
(vi) small market size:
(vii) lack of research support to push the secondary and tertiary sectors.

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