Economics GCSE

Policy conflicts and trade-offs

What Policy conflicts and trade-offs means in Economics GCSE, as defined for AQA.

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Policies designed to achieve one of the objectives can often impact positively or negatively on achieving the other objectives.

AQA · Government objectives

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