India Specializes in Business Process Outsourcing and Does This More

question 77

Multiple Choice

India specializes in business process outsourcing and does this more efficiently than any other country. It buys agricultural commodities, which it produces less efficiently than outsourcing activities, from the United States, even though it produces these agricultural commodities more efficiently than the United States Which international trade theory supports India's decision to buy agricultural commodities from the United States?

• A) Samuelson critique
• B) mercantilism
• C) Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage
• D) Adam Smith's theory of absolute advantage
• E) Leontief's paradox

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