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If a country has a bowed out (concave to the origin) production possibility frontier then production is said to be subject to ?

Correct answer: D. increasing opportunity costs

  • A. constant opportunity costs
  • B. decreasing opportunity costs
  • C. first increasing and then decreasing opportunity costs
  • D. increasing opportunity costs

Explanation

A bowed-out PPF reflects increasing opportunity cost: producing additional units of one good requires giving up progressively more of the other good. This occurs because resources are not equally suited to producing both goods.

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