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`!Economic potential`! is the `F33f`_`[potential`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Potential]`_`f of a `F33f`_`[region`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Region]`_`f, `F33f`_`[nation`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Nation]`_`f, or `F33f`_`[corporation`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Corporation]`_`f for `F33f`_`[economic development`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Economic_development]`_`f and `F33f`_`[growth`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Economic_growth]`_`f. Typically, discussions of economic potential occur when available `F33f`_`[resources`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Resource]`_`f have not yet been tapped and fully developed or `F33f`_`[exploited`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Exploitation_of_natural_resources]`_`f, possibly because of missing `F33f`_`[infrastructure`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Infrastructure]`_`f.

The `F33f`_`[Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Department_of_Defense_Dictionary_of_Military_and_Associated_Terms]`_`f (2005) defines economic potential as

"The total `F33f`_`[capacity`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Productive_capacity]`_`f of a nation to `F33f`_`[produce`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Production_(economics)]`_`f `F33f`_`[goods`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Good_(economics)]`_`f and `F33f`_`[services`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Service_(economics)]`_`f."`:cite-ref-1[`F5bf`_`[1`#cite-note-1]`_`f]

>>Contents

• `F0af`_`[See also`#see-also]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[References`#references]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[External links`#external-links]`_`f

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>>See also

• `F33f`_`[Productive capacity`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Productive_capacity]`_`f

• `F33f`_`[Potential output`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Potential_output]`_`f

• `F33f`_`[Production–possibility frontier`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Production–possibility_frontier]`_`f

• `F33f`_`[Developing country`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Developing_country]`_`f

• `F33f`_`[Potential superpowers`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Potential_superpowers]`_`f

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>>References

`:cite-note-1`!1.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-1]`_`f "Joint Publication 1-02" (PDF). `*Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms`*: 174.

>>External links

• Economic Potential

• `:citerefr-a-2014`aR.A. (2014-06-13). "Economic potential;In search of lost time". The Economist.

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