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Export Competitiveness and Current Account Deficit
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Analyse how a country’s current account deficit might be reduced if its firms become internationally competitive.
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Balance of Payments
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I. 🍃Introduction
- Definition of coherent analysis
- Importance of being internationally competitive
II. Being internationally competitive
- High productivity
- Low inflation
- Low exchange rates
III. How being internationally competitive increases production
- Reduces cost of production
- Decreases price of exports
- Increases quality of exports
- Increases demand for exports
- Increases value of exports / net exports
IV. How being internationally competitive affects imports
- Imports relatively more expensive
- Other countries' products more expensive
- Lower relative quality of imports
- Decreases imports
V. 👉Conclusion
- Summary of key points
- Implications for policy and practice
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