Poor country Rich country Wheat Cloth 6 8 2 20 (a) What are the opportunity cost ratios for these two countries? (b) Show how each country could gain from trade if the poor country could produce (before trade) 3 wheat for 1 cloth and the developed.

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Poor
country
Rich
country
Wheat Cloth
6
8
2
20
(a) What are the opportunity cost ratios for these two countries?
(b) Show how each country could gain from trade if the poor country
could produce (before trade) 3 wheat for 1 cloth and the developed
country could produce (before trade) 2 wheat for 5 cloth, and if the
exchange ratio (with trade) was 1 wheat for 2 cloth.
(c) Would they both still gain if the exchange ratio was (1) 1 wheat for 1
cloth; (2) 1 wheat for 3 cloth?
Transcribed Image Text:Poor country Rich country Wheat Cloth 6 8 2 20 (a) What are the opportunity cost ratios for these two countries? (b) Show how each country could gain from trade if the poor country could produce (before trade) 3 wheat for 1 cloth and the developed country could produce (before trade) 2 wheat for 5 cloth, and if the exchange ratio (with trade) was 1 wheat for 2 cloth. (c) Would they both still gain if the exchange ratio was (1) 1 wheat for 1 cloth; (2) 1 wheat for 3 cloth?
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