Labor Productivity and Comparative Advantage: The Ricardian Model Chapter Organization § § § § § § § § § Introduction The Concept of Comparative Advantage A One-Factor Economy Trade in a One-Factor World Misconceptions About Comparative Advantage Comparative Advantage with Many Goods Adding Transport Costs and Nontraded Goods Empirical Evidence on the Ricardian Model Summary Slide 2- 2 Prepared by Iordanis Petsas To Accompany International Economics: Theory and Policy Sixth Edition Policy‚
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ABSTRACT 2 INTRODUCTION 4 I. BACKGROUND 6 1.Theory of comparative advantage 6 2.Vietnam latest Export and Import situation 7 II. PAST AND RELATED WORK 16 III.EXAMPLE OF VIETNAM 18 1.Comparative advantages of Vietnam in exporting rice 18 2.Comparative advantage of Vietnam in exporting coffee after the collapse of ICA. 23 3.Example of Vietnam‚ appliance of theory of comparative advantage in exporting textiles: 32 IV.VIETNAM GAINS OR LOST FROM TRADE 38 IV.FUTURE WORK 52 CONCLUSION 54 REFERENCE
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the theory of comparative advantages‚ does international trade always benefit the lower income group in a poor country? Who do they trade with? Who are the poor countries? Define by using GDP per capita (usual gauge). Thus China can be considered as a poor country. Among the poorer group‚ they are richly endowed in labor. Poor countries tend to have more workers than machines. They’re comparative advantage lies in their labor industries. According to theory of comparative advantage‚ the
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it all began What is fair trade? Where did it start? Who started it and why? Believe it or not‚ fair trade has been around for a long time. Fair trade is the practice of directly benefiting producers in the developing world by buying straight from them at a guaranteed price. (thefreedictionary.com) Most items that we buy are not made in the U.S‚ their made in different countries and most of the time the producers are getting ripped off. Talking about fair trade for today isn’t the vocal point
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Smith Institute (2008) about how ‘The Fair-trade movement achieves virtually nothing in terms of reducing world poverty’. Fair trade is a standard that is set to support the developing countries exports‚ it is to improve the workers in a developing country’s working conditions‚ fair payments which help them towards development and planning of their future that may help poverty. It also helps them to sell products to developing countries. Fair trade products come mostly in products such as coffee
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international trade become less risky‚ less costly and even less time consuming then the past? Will business confidence likely grow even more in the future? There are multiple reasons for these common questions. Firstly‚ international trade has become less risky because traditional trade was regulated through bilateral treaties between two nations. For centuries under the belief in mercantilism most nations had high tariffs and many restrictions on international trade. Now most international trade among
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Trade agreements are a wide ranging tax‚ tariff and trade treaties that often include investment guarantees. The most common trade agreements are of the preferential and free trade types and are concluded in order to reduce (or eliminate) tariffs‚ quotas and other trade restrictions on items traded between the signatories. General Agreements of Trade and Tariff (GATT) A treaty was created following the conclusion of World War II. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)‚ which was a
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International Trade What is International Trade? International trade is defined as trade between two or more partners from different countries in the exchange of goods and services. In order to understand International trade‚ we need to first know and understand what trade is‚ which is the buying and selling of products between different countries. International Trade simply globalization the world and enable countries to obtain products and services from other countries effortlessly and expediently
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Introduction Fair trade is an organised social movement which is based on partnership between producers and consumers‚ with the aim of providing secure and sustainable livelihoods to suppliers‚ as well as fulfilling their potential. As an alternative approach to free trade which focus on establishing an unrestricted trading relationship‚ the core goal of fair trade is to aid marginalised producers‚ promote trading conditions and sustainability (Fairtrade International‚ 2011). The last decade has
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I think fair-trade is to benefit the coffee industry. It benefits everyone in the coffee industry from the farmers to the consumers. It’s a benefit because it helps farmers‚ fair trade is safe for everyone‚ fair working conditions‚ fair trade supports communities‚ fair trade reduces the number of middle men‚ it has a better outcome for cafes‚ reduces the number of steps in a commodity chain‚ is better for the environment Fairtrade helps farmers because the farmer can get a fair price for their
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