Developing countries have sometimes adopted policies to shift people out of agriculture and into industry by protecting manufactured production. One of the problems they have encountered is that ________.
A) people have been too reluctant to leave rural areas to go to the cities
B) food shortages have increased in rural areas because of worker shortages
C) demand for social and political services has increased excessively in the cities
D) developed countries have retaliated with protection of products from the developing countries
Question 2
Country X is withholding goods from international markets in an attempt to raise prices abroad. Such actions will be most effective for Country X if the nation ________.
A) supports the development of substitutions
B) provides domestic industries with tax breaks
C) receives low-interest loans from foreign banks
D) holds a monopoly on the product or resource
Question 3
Terms of trade refers to ________.
A) the quantity of imports that a given quantity of a country's exports can buy
B) specific requirements placed on imports and exports at the port of entry or exit
C) requirements agreed upon by two countries to regulate bilateral trade
D) an account statement showing a country's annual imports and exports
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