Another way of putting it is that a flexible exchange rate makes sticky internal prices and wages flexible to the rest of the world.

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Only by tightening internal liquidity and allowing the real exchange rate to fall will competitiveness be restored as the economy will shift resources to the tradable sector.

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As with an external deficit, adjustment to a related internal deficit is ultimately the same under any exchange rate regime.

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