A. unstable export markets
B. improving terms of trade
C. limited access to the markets of industrial countries
D. highly elastic demand curves for their products
Related Mcqs:
- When free trade areas are set up the member countries trade with each other grows faster than their trade with other countries This is due to what economist call ?
A. trade diversion
B. trade channeling
C. trade creation and trade diversion
D. trade creation - Concerning the hypothesis that there has occurred a long run deterioration in the developing countries terms of trade empirical studies provide ?
A. mixed evidence that does not substantiate the deterioration hypothesis
B. overwhelming support for the deterioration hypothesis
C. overwhelming opposition to the deterioration hypothesis
D. None of the above - Developing countries that emphasize the production of raw materials or agricultural goods may realize a long-run deterioration in the international terms of trade because of ?
A. relatively low import tariffs maintained by advanced countries
B. highly elastic demand for these products in advanced countries
C. declines in the supplies of these products on world markets
D. sluggish demand for these products in advanced countries - In the Px = export price index, Pm = import price index, Qx = export quantity index,and Qm = import quantity index. Developing countries tend to maintain that their commodity term of trade have declined over the long run suggesting that _________ has declined?
A. Px/Pm
B. Pm/Px
C. (Pm/Px)Qm
D. (Px/Pm)Qx - Developing countries that concentrate production in agricultural products or raw materials may face a long-run decline in their international terms of trade because of ?
A. inelastic demand for these products in advanced countries
B. large increases in the supplies of these products on world markets because of export expansion policies
C. sluggish demand for these products in advanced countries
D. All of the above - Following World War II the United States and other countries sought to liberalize trade among each other the first major postwar step toward trade liberalization was the ?
A. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
B. World Trade Organization
C. Smoot Hawley Organization
D. McKinley Agreement on Trade policy - Tariff levels in advanced countries tend to be __________ tariff levels in developing countries?
A. higher than
B. equal to
C. lower than
D. there is no general pattern - A widely used indicator to differentiate developed countries from developing countries is ?
A. international trade per capita
B. real income per capital
C. unemployment per capita
D. calories per capita - According to the trade theory of Staffan Linder trade tends to be most pronounced in manufactured goods when trading countries have ?
A. similar endowments of natural resources
B. similar levels of technology
C. similar per-capita incomes
D. similar wage levels - Trade creation will more likely outweigh trade diversion for Country X that forms a customs union if the level of tariffs in Country X prior to the customs union is ________ and the total number of countries forming the customs union is _________?
A. relatively high; relatively large
B. relatively high; relatively small
C. relatively low ; relatively large
D. relatively low ; relatively small
