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Autarky
Autarky meaning
A personal condition or state of self-reliance; independence. | (A policy of) national economic self-sufficiency, aimed at ending reliance on foreign imports to sustain a domestic economy. | A self-sufficient country or region which is not dependent on international trade to function economically.
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Autarky is not necessarily an economic phenomenon; for example, a military autarky would be a state that could defend itself without help from another country, or could manufacture all of its weapons without any imports from the outside world.
Embargoes and tariffs imposed by the West forced the republic to "maintain the old autarky structures and begin new autarky projects of its own".
When activities are completed, kids earn “arcade tickets,” in a Chuck E. Cheese-style autarky, wherein they can be used to buy new clothes and furniture for their Eejie.
The country has great potential to get autarky and subsequently produce surplus for exports in oil seeds, raw cotton and raw material for pharmaceutical products.
Autarky can be said to be the policy of a state or other entity when it seeks to be self-sufficient as a whole, but also can be limited to a narrow field such as possession of a key raw material.
Finally, Peukert argued that it was the Great Depression and the turn to a nationalist policy of autarky within Germany at the same time that finished off the Weimar Republic, not the Treaty of Versailles.
Other reforms adopted under the government's structural adjustment program include increasing exchange rate controls and increasing autarky and increasing restrictions on imports.
The Fianna Fáil's platform of economic autarky had appeal among the farmers, working-class people and the poor, whilst alienating more affluent classes.