An orthodox solution to improve the balance of payments position of a country is to follow a currency devaluation. However, a success of this strategy depends on whether the sum of the elasticities of imports and exports of that country is
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This question is on Devaluation, the Marshall-Lerner condition and the J-curve, part of Balance of payments and exchange rates in International Economics.
When a fall in the currency improves the trade balance and why it may first worsen it.
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