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“Linkages between resource-endowed regions and resource-utilizing regions determine the pattern of international trade.” Elaborate with suitable examples.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Economic Geography

Resource-endowed regions hold surplus primary supply — crude, ore, arable land — while resource-utilizing regions hold the processing capacity, capital and market demand; trade is the linkage closing this gap.

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