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A lot of people die and many factories are destroyed due to floods in a country. How will it affect the production possibility curve?

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PPC of the economy will shift to the left from PP to `P_(1)P_(1)`. It happens because the number of possible combinations available with the economy has decreased due to destruction of resources in the economy.
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