Causes of disequilibrium in the balance of payment.

Causes of disequilibrium in the balance of payment.

  • Importation of expensive manufactured goods such as cars that increase foreign exchange expenditure
  • Low output /limited industrialization leading to low export volumes
  • Exportation of primary products yielding low foreign exchange income
  • High inflationary tendencies causing low demand for goods and services
  • Limited variety of exports cause low foreign exchange incomes
  • Debt servicing drains foreign exchanges from the country
  • Persistence political instabilities leading high military expenditure causing high military imports
  • Profit and income repatriation by foreign investors and imported skilled manpower.
  • High government expenditure on foreign trips
  • High population growth rates leading to high dependence, low marginal productivity and high consumption
  • A large subsistence sector cause low productivity
  • Low technology leads low productivity and poor quality goods and service yielding low incomes from exports
  • Unfavorable natural factors such as floods and draughts leading low agricultural outputs.
  • Liberalization leading to dumping of cheap substitutes that kill domestic industries from unfair competition.
  • Corruption and swindling of government revenues
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