Examples of hard currency

• An accommodating regime is defined as a value on the hard currency index that is one standard deviation below the mean.

• Lack of hard currency put suitable harvesters and tractors from capitalist suppliers out of reach.

• Only the off-shore oil industry, insulated from the war both physically and through foreign control, has continued to deliver hard currency with any regularity.

• Monetarism and hard currency pegs, once seen as right-wing, now appear as providing vital discipline to sustain social democracy.

• Could it transfer hard currency to pay for membership dues in foreign societies?

• No other sector has shown the potential to replace sugar as the main producer of hard currency or to grow rapidly at such a sustained rate.

• It has been argued that this is a way for the government to confiscate the hard currency (to be set aside for other priorities such as health and education).

• By legalising dollars the government hoped to undercut the burgeoning black market, encourage an expansion in the flow of remittances, and capture some of this much-needed hard currency.