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| Dutch disease |
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economic misfortune after apparent good fortune: a situation in which a country's seeming good fortune proves ultimately to have a detrimental effect on the economy
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| [Because the discovery of a large natural gas reserve in the Netherlands led to a decline in its industrial base owing to inflationary pressure on the guilder] |
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