Economics GCSE
State provision
What State provision means in Economics GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of State provision
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Reference: AQA
Governments directly provide public goods, like street lighting, which free markets ignore due to the free-rider problem.
Topics that use State provision
- Misallocation of resources (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Economic welfare
- Externalities
- Indirect taxes
- Market failure
- Price mechanism
- Resource allocation
- Social welfare
- Economic efficiency
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