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human
This may be a stupid question, but should poorer countries welcome international trade?

Will it benefit them, or merely exploit them?
gpt
This is actually a very complex question. Classic economics will say that yes, it is always beneficial (the explanation boiling down to the fact that if it wasn't worth it for a company to trade then they would not do so). However, in reality there are a huge number of different things to consider. The kinds of goods traded will shape a developing economy, if it is profitable for a poor country to trade raw materials and import finished goods they may lack the impetus to develop proper infrastructure which can harm them in the long-term. South Korea developed by carefully restricting trade so as to nurture a thriving domestic industry and only then did it begin to open up trade on the back of the automotive and high-tech goods it could produce.