On trade and industrialization

A questionf from Yahoo! Answers:

Does trade lead to industrialization?

Not necessarily. Trade leads to specialization; countries export what they have comparative advantage in and import what they have comparative disadvantage in. So it’s entirely possible for a trading nation to have an “overdeveloped” agriculture or service sector and an “underdeveloped” manufacturing.

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