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Question
Discuss four factors which determine this phenomenon.
Solution
An increase in supply may occur due to the following factors:
- Improvements in technology leading to a fall in the cost of production.
- Reduction in factor prices, causing a fall in cost of production and making production profitable.
- Decrease in the prices of other goods.
- Increase in number of firms in the industry.
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