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What is Devaluation? The process by which a nation deliberately lowers the value of its currency relative to other international currencies is call...

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What is Devaluation? The process by which a nation deliberately lowers the value of its currency relative to other international currencies is called devaluation. In international trade, a devalued currency makes exports cheaper and imports more costly, which can help to stimulate more domestic manufacturing business in emerging market countries.

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Finance allah shmoop What is devaluation steve Valuing a currency

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i am making it less valuable can only happen when

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the government which controls that currency decides to devalue it

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So yeah it's a kind of their call when and

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how much basically devaluation happens when a country decreases the

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value of its currency against other currencies A lot of

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times by just running the printing press all night printing

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a whole bunch of their currency there's a whole lot

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of supply on the market Well why on earth would

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a country ever intentionally do this like devalue their currency

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Well usually because it wants its goods to be less

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expensive abroad like to be ableto export them more cheaply

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to places like the u s and china and russia

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by a lot of whatever's Well when a currency is

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devalued the homegoods iii the home country goods are cheaper

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in other markets This will usually lead to an overall

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increase in exports for that country when it comes to

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exports and imports though there's a kind of a union

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ng ng anyway there's a counterbalance at play here imports

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become mohr expensive and consumers at home likely shift away

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From foreign teo purchase in country goods right it's kind

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of protecting the country's own domestic product there Currency changes

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Yeah well the result Yeah strengthened domestic product sales in

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all of this might sound hunky dorey But while there

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are some potentially nasty side effects local companies are getting

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a bit of a break here which might make them

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inefficient Slash lazy slash sloppy slash lacking in competitive spirit

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to go fight it out in the global markets No

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plus one of currency is devalued Each unit is worth

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bless and that can lead to inflation which causes all

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kinds Other problems down the line So that's just the

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nutshell of devaluation making money not worthless But you know 00:01:57.019 --> [endTime] worth less

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