Shifting along PPC to favor manufactured goods

Steps:

• PPC illustrates trade-offs between agricultural and manufactured goods with full resource use.
• Policy aims to increase manufactured goods, decreasing agricultural output.
• Movement must be along the curve from a point with more agriculture to one with more manufactured goods.
• Assuming standard PPC (agriculture on x-axis, manufactured on y-axis), identify direction from X (higher agriculture) to W (higher manufactured).

Why C is correct:

• X to W moves rightward/upward along PPC, increasing manufactured goods per economic definition of opportunity cost trade-off.

Why the others are wrong:

• A: W to X decreases manufactured goods, opposing policy.
• B: W to Y likely shifts to even less manufactured or inefficient point.
• D: Z to X moves toward more agriculture, reducing manufactured output.

Final answer: C