A) Consider the Island of Uba located off the shores of South Florida. The economy of Uba produces only two goods: sugar cane (S) and consumption goods and services (CS). In the late 1950s a new revolutionary announced a policy that required all Uba’s medical doctors, engineers, teachers and research scientists to allocate half their time to working in the cane fields. Draw the PPF (Production Possibilities Frontier) for Uba (Sugar cane on the x-axis, consumption goods and services on the y-axis). Indicate where the economy of Uba was located as a result of the new revolutionary government’s policy on the diagram and explain your results.

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A) Consider the Island of Uba located off the shores of South Florida. The economy of Uba produces only two goods: sugar cane (S) and consumption goods and services (CS). In the late 1950s a new revolutionary announced a policy that required all Uba’s medical doctors, engineers, teachers and research scientists to allocate half their time to working in the cane fields. Draw the PPF (Production Possibilities Frontier) for Uba (Sugar cane on the x-axis, consumption goods and services on the y-axis). Indicate where the economy of Uba was located as a result of the new revolutionary government’s policy on the diagram and explain your results.

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