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  • A shrinkage in export and import-competing manufacturing.
  • And if your goal is to shift domestic resources toward the manufacture of import-competing goods, the weak dollar also helps.
  • On his first point, there is no theorem that guarantees that the partial-equilibrium losses to import-competing producers “are more than offset by gains to consumers from lower...
  • "Activity in South Africa was probably supported by the recovery in the global economy, the bright prospects for exporters and a pick-up in the demand for goods produced by...
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