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IMPORT SUBSTITUTION: A strategy for economic development for a country based on replacing imported goods with domestic production. This is often directed toward imported inputs used for domestic production. The goal of this policy is to encourage domestic production, which subsequently increases domestic income and consumption. A contrasting economic development is export promotion.
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EMPLOYED The condition in which a resource (especially labor) is actively engaged in a productive activity usually in exchange for an explicit factor payment (such as wage or salary). This general condition forms the conceptual basis for one of the three categories used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to classify an individual's labor force status. The specific BLS classification is employed persons. The other two BLS categories are unemployed persons and not in the labor force.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time searching for a specialty store hoping to buy either a birthday greeting card for your father or a T-shirt commemorating the first day of spring. Be on the lookout for slightly overweight pizza delivery guys.
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One of the largest markets for gold in the United States is the manufacturing of class rings.
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