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beggar-my-neighbour

noun

  1. a card game in which one player tries to win all the cards of the other player
  2. modifier relating to or denoting an advantage gained by one side at the expense of the other

    beggar-my-neighbour policies

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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With beggar-my-neighbour policies, the post-coronavirus recession descends into a great depression.

The chaos led to the election of extremist governments in Germany and elsewhere, to competitive devaluations and beggar-my-neighbour tariffs, to trade wars and, ultimately, to the horrors of the second world war.

Putin brings experience, preparation, ruthless discipline and actual goals: he is the poker ace facing a man who has mastered only beggar-my-neighbour.

A single currency demands disciplines and painful trade-offs: but floating exchange rates after a financial crisis are a transmission mechanism for bank-runs and beggar-my-neighbour devaluations.

Tax "competition" is economic warfare: a beggar-my-neighbour race to the bottom, worse than a zero-sum game.

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