Where profit-seeking intermediaries offer customers financial products earmarked to fund the non-profit sector, organizational and accounting controls are necessary to ensure transparency. Other conditions being equal, two factors may handicap non-profit undertakings in raising debt capital. First, the rule prohibiting distribution of profits may strike the prospective lender as likely to erode operating efficiency in the long run.
Obviously, firms that cannot compete in the world marketplace will not be able to provide jobs at home. Second, although imports may compete with domestic production, they also improve the lot of consumers by giving them better variety in and better prices for the goods and services they buy.