How should countries budget their money?

How should budgets be spent? And how similar are considerations for personal and government budgets?

Published 19 April 2024

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Use this one-hour Headline lesson to help your students:

  • Explore the challenges of state budgeting
  • Discuss considerations for personal budgeting
  • Decide how to spend a government budget

This lesson develops the following skill:

Problem-solving

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Advanced:
analysing complex problems and solutions

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