Use the Gravity Model to explain why China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan had increased rapidly their share of world GDP. Most importantly the volume of trade between these emerging economies has grown substantially

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Comparative Advantage and Absolute Advantage Analysis

The theory of absolute advantage was given by Adam Smith in the year 1776.