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Economic Sectors:
Primary Sector – Extracts and uses the natural resources from the earth.
e.g. Fishing, farming
The value of output produced in each sector and the proportion of this to
the real GDP.
Almost all the countries of the world follow mixed economy. A mixed
economy has both the private Sector and public Sector.
Advantages:
High efficiency and lower costs
Competition is encouraged (prices will be lower)
Disadvantages:
Workers may lose jobs to improve efficiency/cut cost (private sector business
does not care about employment rates in countries)
Advantages
Disadvantages
Low efficiency
No competition between businesses