3. “The world’s poorest countries cannot find anything to export. There is no resource that is abundant—certainly not capital or land, and in small poor nations not even labor is abundant.” Discuss.
Compared to other countries, the small poor country need not be an absolute resource abundant country. The relative endowments of the production factors decide the comparative advantage for a region. Poor countries normally have a greater endowment ratio of labor capital (relative labor abundance) compared to developing and developed countries. They have comparatively low labor cost of production. If they sell comparatively labor intensive goods (Hecksher-Ohlin Theorem), they are still able to gain from trading. The price of business is higher than the price of its autarky. Wage increases for employees and their purchasing power rises too
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