A situation in which one nation produces good A using labor more intensively (relative to capital) than good B and a second nation, producing good A, uses capital more intensively (relative to labor) than good B is called:
A. a reversal of factor intensities.
B. a paradox of factor intensities
C. backward technology.
D. micro intensity.
Ans: A. a reversal of factor intensities.
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