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Answer the following questions: 2. Describe the pattern over the last century shown by the trade-to-GDP...

Answer the following questions:

2. Describe the pattern over the last century shown by the trade-to-GDP ratio for leading industrial economies.

       

3. In relative terms, international capital flows may not be much greater today than they were
a hundred years ago, although they are certainly greater than they were fifty years ago. Qualitatively, however, capital flows are different today. Explain.

                

4. What is an institution? Give examples of both formal and informal institutions. Explain how they differ from organizations.

                

5. What are the arguments in favor of international organizations? What are the arguments against them? Critics of the global institutions have a variety of complaints about the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank. Explain the main categories of complaints.

                

6. Describe the main functions of each of the following: IMF, World Bank, GATT, WTO.

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