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Benefits of International trade
- Open doors to new entrepreneurial opportunity across nations
- Provide a country’s people with greater choice of goods and services
- An important engine for job creation in many countries
* 1985: Centrally planning economy
* 1986: “Đổi mới” policy
Theories of International Trade
Mercantilism (Thuyết trọng thương): A trade theory which holds that a government can improve the economic well-being of the country by encouraging exports and stifling imports to accumulate wealth in the form of precious metals
Neo-mercantilism: A trade theory which holds that a government can improve the economic well-being of the country by encouraging exports and stifling imports
-> Quỹ dự trữ vàng, Quỹ dự trữ ngoại hối
Theory of absolute advantage: A trade theory which holds that nations can increase their economic well-being by specialising in goods that they can produce more efficiently than anyone else
Theory of comparative advantage: A trade theory which holds that nations should produce those goods for which they have the greatest relative advantage
Divisional labour: phân công lao động -> specialization: chuyên môn hóa
Economies of scale: hiệu quả kinh tế theo quy mô