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Pertaining to the system or range of economic activity in a country, region, or community.

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development project

Economy; International economics

A project intended to increase a developing country's ability to produce in the future. Such projects are most commonly additions to the country's capital stock, but they may ...

diagonal

Economy; International economics

1. In a matrix, the elements on a straight line from the top left to the bottom right, or occasionally from the bottom left to the top right. 2. In an Edgeworth box, the straight ...

differentiated product

Economy; International economics

1. A firm's product that is not identical to products of other firms in the same industry. Contrasts with homogeneous product. 2. Sometimes applied to products produced by a ...

direct factor content

Economy; International economics

A measure of factor content that includes only the factors used in the last stage of production, ignoring factors used in producing intermediate inputs. Contrasts with ...

direction of trade

Economy; International economics

1. Refers to the particular countries and kinds of countries toward which a country's exports are sent, and from which its imports are brought, in contrast to the commodity ...

directly unproductive profit-seeking activities

Economy; International economics

Activities that have no direct productive purpose (neither increasing consumer utility nor contributing to production of a good or service that would increase utility) and are ...

direct-plus-indirect factor content

Economy; International economics

A measure of factor content that includes factors used in producing intermediate inputs, factors used in producing intermediate inputs ''to'' the intermediate inputs, and so ...