Chapter 21: Q. 37 (page 523)
What are some ways that governments can help people who lose from trade?
Short Answer
By providing subsidies to the domestic industries, providing job training to workers to upskill them, retirement pension, etc.
Chapter 21: Q. 37 (page 523)
What are some ways that governments can help people who lose from trade?
By providing subsidies to the domestic industries, providing job training to workers to upskill them, retirement pension, etc.
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Get started for freeThe country of Pepperland exports steel to the Land of Submarines. Information for the quantity demanded (Qd) and quantity supplied (Qs) in each country, in a world without trade, are given in Table 21.6 and Table 21.7.
a. What would be the equilibrium price and quantity in each country in a world without trade? How can you tell?
b. What would be the equilibrium price and quantity in each country if trade is allowed to occur? How can you tell?
c. Sketch two supply and demand diagrams, one for each country, in the situation before trade.
d. On those diagrams, show the equilibrium price and the levels of exports and imports in the world after trade.
e. If the Land of Submarines imposes an antidumping import quota of 30, explain in general terms whether it will benefit or injure consumers and producers in each country.
f. Does your general answer change if the Land of Submarines imposes an import quota of 70?
Who gains and who loses from trade?
How can governments identify good candidates for infant industry protection? Can you suggest some key characteristics of good candidates? Why are industries like computers not good candidates for infant industry protection?
Do the jobs for workers in low-income countries that involve making products for export to high-income countries typically pay these workers more or less than their next-best alternative?
Why do you think that the GATT rounds and,
more recently, WTO negotiations have become longer and more difficult to resolve?
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