Question
State the meaning and properties of production possibilities frontier.

Answer

PPF is the locus of different combinations of the two goods that can be produced with fixed resources, assuming full and efficient utilisation of these resources.
Properties:
  1. Slopes downward from left to right.
  2. Concave to the origin.

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