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When you travel to South America, you encounter countries that have a vast amount of natural resources, and very large labor forces. However, despite of the abundance of these resources, you also see a lot of poverty. Can you provide an economic explanation of why poverty exists? (Hint: review the list of factors of production necessary to produce goods and services).

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The poverty exists because South America lack of certain factors of production. Factors of production are the resources of land, labor, capital, and enterprise used to produce goods and services. South America has a vast amount of land ...

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