If a Country Has the Comparative Advantage in Producing a Product

question 38

True/False

If a country has the comparative advantage in producing a product, then that country must also have the absolute advantage in producing that product.

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Definitions:

α-Pyranose

A form of monosaccharide that adopts a cyclic six-membered ring structure, resembling a pyran, with the anomeric carbon in the alpha configuration.

Haworth Structure

A method for representing cyclic sugars as planar rings with hydroxyl groups positioned above or below the plane.

β-Furanose

A form of a cyclic sugar where the furanose ring has the hydroxyl group at the anomeric carbon in the beta configuration.

α-D-Glucopyranose

An isomer of glucose that is a six-membered oxygen-containing ring (pyranose form), important in biology and nutrition.