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How were U.S. foreign direct investments in 2010 distributed among Europe, Canada, Latin America, and elsewhere?
What was the dollar value of U.S. direct investments abroad and U.S. private holdings of long-term foreign securities in 1950 and 2007?
What is meant by direct investments? By what organizations are they usually undertaken internationally?
What is meant by portfolio investments? Through what institutions do they usually take place?
In what sense are international flows of productive resources a substitute for international commodity trade?
Write down the extensive form of this game. How many subgames are there in this game? Solve the game by backward induction. Be sure to detail every step.
Explain the reason rich nations should and should not forgive all of the foreign debt of the poorest developing countries.
Explain why immiserizing growth does not seem to have occurred in most developing countries over the past three decades.
In what way did the implementation of the Uruguay Round help developing nations? In what way did it not?
Why has the New International Economic Order demanded by developing countries not been established? Why is this no longer a hotly debated topic?
With the use of a diagram, show how a buffer stock could lead either to an unmanageable stock or to the buffer authority running out of the commodity.
Draw two figures showing that with a negatively inclined demand curve and a positively inclined supply curve, producers' earnings fluctuate more.
Draw a figure showing that when the supply of a commodity increases, its equilibrium price will fall by a greater amount the more price-inelastic is the demand.
Explain with the use of a graph how deteriorating terms of trade resulting from growth can make a developing nation worse off after growth than before.
What effect is an improvement in the technology of primary production likely to have on the terms of trade of a developing country? Why?
What criticisms have been levied against the United Nations study that Prebisch and Singer quoted in their work to confirm their belief?
What reasons did Prebisch, Singer, and Myrdal give for their belief that commodity terms of trade of developing nations have tendency to deteriorate over time?
What is meant by the commodity, or net barter, terms of trade? the Income terms of trade? the single factoral term of trade? the double factoral terms of trade?
In what ways can international trade still play a very important supportive role for development today?
In what way was international trade an engine of growth for the regions of recent settlement during the nineteenth century?
Why did some economists regard traditional trade theory as irrelevant for developing nations and the development process? How can this charge be answered?
Indicate the possible cost and benefit to the United States from the movement to a single unified market by the European Union at the beginning of 1993.
Explain why the 1988 U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement created much less controversy in the United States than NAFTA, which included Mexico.
Discuss the differences between economies of scale and economies of scope and how firms can benefit from each.
Using supply and demand and competitive analyses, explain what happens to a pharmaceutical company's revenues and profits from an individual drug