import substitution

collocation in English

meanings of importand substitution

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import
noun
uk /ˈɪm.pɔːt/ us /ˈɪm.pɔːrt/
goods bought by one country ...
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substitution
noun[C or U]
uk /ˌsʌb.stɪˈtʃuː.ʃən/ us /ˌsʌb.stəˈtuː.ʃən/
the use of one person or thing instead ...
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Examples of import substitution

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This provides a valuable study of a place that had benefited under the previous paradigm of importsubstitution industrialisation.
In the 1950s and 1960s the penchant was for models of industrialisation, importsubstitution and programme to eliminate economic dependency.
The marginalised sectors of the population, having lost out as a result of long-standing import substitution policies, were responsive to neopopulist discourse.
The progress of importsubstitution was gradual but sustained.
Local autonomy and sustainable development: testing importsubstitution in localizing food systems.
The revolutionary government began with a highly ambitious importsubstitution development strategy that quickly produced an unsustainable balance of payments deficit.
The question was nonetheless equated strictly in terms of electricity substitution and importsubstitution.
Large domestic groups, which grew significantly under importsubstitution industrialisation, controlled the pace of economic reform and became indispensable allies of foreign capital.
The temporary disappearance of external competition in the internal market acted as a strong stimulus to importsubstitution, and new outlets, abandoned by the belligerent nations, were taken over.
The industrial policies only affected importsubstitution industries, but these companies had many deficiencies, for example, limited foreign competitiveness, which accelerated the dual structure of the national industry.
He fails to understand the economic debate about the relationship of importsubstitution policies and regionalism, not recognising the conflict between national and regional economic interests.
Dependent on sugar exports for 88 per cent of its foreign exchange, the government realised that the country was too small to support much importsubstitution industrialisation.
Cheap labour and primary products from the poor world will become increasingly vulnerable to the labour substitution and importsubstitution which are likely in the rich world.
That means that we must increase our exports and that importsubstitution is involved.
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There is nothing like sanctions for encouraging importsubstitution.
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We have to go in for real importsubstitution.
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