Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, has been drawing attention to the environmental and financial threats faced by small and vulnerable countries like hers. By David Gelles As global warming ...
This Economic Letter summarizes the papers presented at the symposium “Revived Bretton Woods System: A New Paradigm for Asian Development?” held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on ...
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Mia Mottley, prime minister of Barbados, at the COP27 summit. (Peter Dejong / AP Photo) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers ...
Out of the “currency wars” of the 1930s, and then World War II, came a shared dream among the non-communist states: to establish a stable economic environment for business and trade. Representatives ...
The Bretton Woods system was hailed as a vast improvement over both the rigid gold standard of pre-1914 and the monetary anarchy of the interwar period. For a quarter-century, Bretton Woods ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economic policy for the 21st century. Today is a period when we are building the foundation for the monetary systems ...
The first thing to say about the calls for a “new Bretton Woods” is that they overreach, in the sense that it is very unlikely that any changes in the structure of the international monetary or ...
(Reuters) - Here are some details about the financial architecture established in 1944 by the Bretton Woods Conference, which European leaders now say needs updating: * THE CONFERENCE - WHAT DID IT DO ...
Since the end of World War II, the U.S. dollar has enjoyed a unique and powerful position in international trade. But perhaps no more. Before boarding a plane on Saturday to meet President George W.
(Reuters) - Members of the G20 grouping of nations were set to arrive on Friday in Washington to discuss ways to reform the global financial system. Here are some details about the financial ...