Why do governments provide some goods and services in market economies? they provide politicians with better jobs. markets cannot operate without some government involvement. markets are always distorted by laissez-faire policies. all needed services cannot be adequately provided by businesses.

I believe the answer is: All needed services cannot be adequately provided by businesses.

Example of this are products that considered to be basic necessities such as clean water. If we give the control of clean water to the corporation, they could rise the product as high as they like and the consumers have no choice but to accept it, since we would die without the product

well the fact it is basically a peninsula allowed trade to come from many places, thus allowing cultural diffusion to take place. india has seasonal monsoons that merchants travel back and forth from india using the monsoons wind patterns