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A currency's value mostly is the reflection of the 'value' of the underlying economy. So a country with a strong economy normally should have a high-value currency and a country with its economy in tatters will see the value of its currency decline sharply.

Sometimes it does not work out like that in practice, however. When for instance China's economy was booming, its currency should have gone up in value correspondingly. But that would have made China's export products a lot more expensive and so have hurt China's economic development. Therefore China kept the value of its money linked to the value of the US dollar, which did not go up at the time - and so kept its products nice and cheap. Another case history is Greece: the country is practically bankrupt, but for political reasons the European Union is more or less forcing it to keep using the Euro as a currency, which is way too 'valuable' compared to the value of Greece's economy.

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