Environmental sustainability is concerned with whether environmental resources will be protected and maintained for future generations. Issues of environmental sustainability Environmental sustainability is concerned with issues such as: Long-term health of ecosystems. Protecting the long-term productivity and health of resources to meet future economic and social needs, e.g. protecting food supplies, farmland and fishing stocks. …
The World Trade Organisation is responsible for dealing with the rules of trade between nations at a global or near-global level. The WTO helps to resolve conflicts between nations and provide forums for agreeing over trade agreements and their implementation. The aim of WTO is to help trade flow as freely as possible, except where …
A production possibility frontier shows how much an economy can produce given existing resources. A production possibility can show the different choices that an economy faces. For example, when an economy produces on the PPF curve, increasing the output of goods will have an opportunity cost of fewer services. Diagram of Production Possibility Frontier Moving …
Absolute advantage means that an economy can produce a greater total of goods for the same quantity of inputs. Absolute advantage means that fewer resources are needed to produce the same amount of goods and there will be lower costs than other economies. Simple example of absolute advantage In this example, Brazil has an absolute advantage …
The marginal efficiency of capital displays the expected rate of return on investment, at a particular given time. The marginal efficiency of capital is compared to the rate of interest. Keynes described the marginal efficiency of capital as: “The marginal efficiency of capital is equal to that rate of discount which would make the present …