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Originally Posted by seabass
Easy to answer : if you buy a bottle of coca cola at 10,000 dong and next month it cost 11,000 dong the dong has devalued by 10% ( approximately )
The economic theory is a bit difficult to explain but it is called Fisher's Equation. It has to do with a person perception on expectation of future inflation.
What the government is doing is this : the devaluation is to trigger a increase in economic activity. If the VN currency is deem as cheaper, then the demand for VN product will increase. The opposite is true; foreign goods will become more expensive. The move to devalue the dong will have an effect on the real interest as compare to the nominal interest.
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Although what you have stated is somewhat economically true, i.e. it means that the distributor of coca-cola in Vietnam have to pay approx. 1% more when he import into Vietnam due to the 1% decreased buying power but this does not necessarily means everybody will increase the retail price by 10% leh
Actually altho I am not an economic expert, you may want to re-read Fisher's Equation again as it actually contradicts what you have tried to explain
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