Beggar-thy-neighbor

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Beggar-thy-neighbor

An international trade policy of competitive devaluations and increased protective barriers that one country institutes to gain at the expense of its trading partners.

Beggar-Thy-Neighbor

A protectionist policy involving the devaluation of one's currency and the construction of tariffs barriers on other countries. The goal of a beggar-thy-neighbor policy is to increase demand for a country's exports (by devaluing the currency and making a country's goods less expensive in other countries) while also reducing demand for the countries imports (by making them more expensive through the tariff barriers). A form of this policy, notably the tariff barrier, was implemented at the beginning of the Great Depression with almost no success. A beggar-thy-neighbor policy in the United States caused other countries to follow suit, resulting in a massive decrease in international trade. This made the Depression worse. See also: Smoot-Hawley Act.
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leadership and responsible treatment of our currency's reserve role in the global economy by avoiding the disruptive, destabilizing, and ultimately destructive beggar-thy-neighbor policies witnessed in the last century.
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The allies, particularly the United States and Great Britain, were determined that post-WWII international institutions would avoid the beggar-thy-neighbor policies of the 1930s.
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