By cutting production, it would avoid a surplus stock of cars building up.

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This should generate 5, 250MW when finished, increasing electricity production in the country fivefold, providing a surplus for export and allowing Ethiopia to open up as a manufacturer.

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Inventories, which were temporarily in surplus, have tightened due to an OPEC production cutback.

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This helped reduce Europe's reliance on imported food but led before long to over-production, and the creation of "mountains" and "lakes" of surplus food and drink.

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More critical still, in order for Japan to maintain a surplus in its current account, companies should invest even more to expand production and sales abroad, so as to increase earnings that can be repatriated as dividends to Japan.

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Worldwide steel production got schmeissed and utilities lived off their inventories of steam coal when generating capacity turned into a surplus.

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The production of valuable goods and services is maximized with strong property rights when little is wasted in efforts to seize the surplus of others or to prevent others from seizing our surplus.

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