tiger economy
noun[C]
ECONOMICSukus(alsotiger,economic tiger)acountrywith aneconomythat isgrowingveryfast:
Corporations had tofacetheincreasingpowerof theEastAsiantigereconomies.
See also
Asian tiger
Celtic tiger
Examplesoftiger economy
tiger economy
This century, thattigereconomywent from boom to bust and from full employment, or apparent full employment, to 65 per cent. of men being out of work.
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This active exchange rate management allowed the 4 tiger economies to avoid exchange rate appreciation and maintain a stable real exchange rate.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Those are also important in attracting inward investment, as the tiger economies have shown so well.
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That is something which the tiger economies have done successfully, even though they are undergoing a rather painful blip at the moment.
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Even the workfare scheme and the welfare-to-work provisions are not in the spirit or the practice of the tiger economies.
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Too often, the rise of the far east tiger economies is seen simply as a challenge to our way of life.
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Others have pointed to the tiger economies as though we have only to copy them.
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On the global economy, none of the tiger economies would do anything so rash as to institute a windfall tax on profitable enterprises that have been recently privatised.
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- what's up?
- what-s-up
- what's what
- what-s-what
- what-s-with
- what's with something?
- what's your game?
- what-s-your-game
- what the actual fuck?
- what-the-actual-fuck
- what the blazes...?
- what-the-blazes
- what the heck
- up-front fee
- up-front-fee
- up-front payment
- up-game
- upgradation
- upgrade
- upgraded version
- upheaval
- upheld
- uphill
- uphill struggle
- uphill task