A cotton-growing business supplies raw cotton to a mill. The mill produces fabric for a shirt maker, and a clothing shop sells the finished shirts.
Explain how these activities connect the three sectors of production, and how a sustained rise in sales of shirts could affect the earlier stages of production.
76 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Economics 2.1 The role of markets, covering 2.1.1 What is a market, 2.1.2 Primary, secondary and tertiary sectors, 2.1.3 Factor and product markets, and 2.1.4 Specialisation and exchange. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.