Developing countries tend to abandon free-trade policies and to establish protectionist measures instead because<u> </u><u>their industries are less productive than the ones from more developed countries.</u><u> </u>
If developing countries let their industrial sector to freely compete in the global markets, their industries would be <u>the least productive and forced to close down. Therefore, commercial barriers are set in order to protect them and give them time to grow by just serving the domestic market,</u> time to achieve efficiency gains and to adopt productive technologies so that maybe after a while they are competitive enough to go international. Moreover, charing tariffs constitutes an important economic revenue for developing countries.
The authors suggest that the Muslim faith spread and endured
in the southern seas trading regions mainly because of the fact that the Muslim
traders has assimilated with the population of which it occurred in the same
time as they are maintaining their faith that are considered to be attractive to
the indigenous people.
he is stating that the elected representative needs to give the people what they want, or at least take their opinion into consideration because they chose him to represent them as a whole