CurriculumInternational Affairs & Global Economics
International Affairs & Global Economics
How trade, currencies and international institutions connect the world's economies - and what happens when they don't get along.
- Trade and Globalization How the world's economies became so interconnected, and what that interconnection actually delivers. 📄 Read-aloud
- Exchange Rates Explained What determines how much one country's currency is worth in another's, and why it matters more than it seems. 📄 Read-aloud
- Tariffs and Trade Wars How a tariff dispute escalates into a trade war, and who actually pays for it. 📄 Read-aloud
- International Affairs: Checkpoint 1 Covers trade and globalization, exchange rates, and tariffs and trade wars. 5 questions
- The IMF and the World Bank What these two institutions actually do, and why they get mentioned in nearly every international economic crisis. 📄 Read-aloud
- BRICS and the G20 Two major international groupings, what they were built to do, and how they differ. 📄 Read-aloud
- Global Supply Chains How a single product often depends on dozens of countries, and what happens when that chain breaks. 📄 Read-aloud
- International Affairs: Checkpoint 2 Covers the IMF and World Bank, BRICS and the G20, and global supply chains. 5 questions
- Economic Sanctions How economic sanctions are used as a foreign policy tool, and how effective they actually tend to be. 📄 Read-aloud
- Global Inequality How economic inequality between and within countries is measured, and why the two aren't the same story. 📄 Read-aloud