An international monetary system is a set of internationally agreed rules, conventions and supporting institutions that facilitate international trade...
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Bretton Woods system (redirect from Bretton Woods monetary system)
The Bretton Woods system of monetary management established the rules for commercial relations among the United States, Canada, Western European countries...
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current system. Monetary reformers may advocate any of the following, among other proposals: A return to the gold standard (or silver standard or bimetallism)...
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History of ExxonMobil (redirect from Standard Oil of New Jersey)
throughout the middle of the 20th century. Because of Standard Oil of New Jersey's ownership over all Standard Oil assets at the time of the 1911 breakup, ExxonMobil...
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linked Brown with the role of managing director of the International Monetary Fund following the scheduled retirement of Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Brown's successor...
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creation, Brown's charter was a uniquely progressive document. Other colleges had curricular strictures against opposing doctrines, while Brown's charter...
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Saudi riyal (section Proposed monetary union)
1999. A new series of 1, 5, 10, 25, and 50 halalas and bimetallic 1 and 2 riyal coins was issued in 2016. In 1953, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA)...
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Chancellor of the Exchequer (section Monetary policy)
public spending across government departments. It previously controlled monetary policy as well until 1997, when the Bank of England was granted independent...
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore or (MAS), is the central bank and financial regulatory authority of Singapore. It administers the various statutes...
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Standard Chartered PLC is a British multinational bank with operations in consumer, corporate and investment banking, and treasury services. Despite being...
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Woods institutions (the International Monetary Fund and World Bank) were set up to support an international monetary system, among capitalist economies,...
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Pound sterling (redirect from British monetary system)
1857, vol 147, cc304–29 Luca Einaudi, European Monetary Unification and the International Gold Standard (1865–1873) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)...
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Great Depression (redirect from The depression and the new deal)
abandoned the gold standard allowed their currencies to depreciate which caused their balance of payments to strengthen. It also freed up monetary policy so that...
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lit. 'half [coin]'; spelled as chetrums on coins until 1979). The Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan, the central bank of Bhutan, is the minting authority...
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dollar. The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Brunei Currency and Monetary Board (now the Authoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam (Monetary Authority...
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Governor. In February 2023, it was reported that the Monetary Authority was seeking public input for a new set of coin and banknote designs, which will feature...
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1999–2002 sale of United Kingdom gold reserves (redirect from Brown's bottom)
Does Gordon Brown's regret selling half of Britains' gold reserves 10 years ago?, The Daily Telegraph, 8 May 2009 Chart of gold 1968–99 "Brown's badly-timed...
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the gold standard, the United States kept the dollar convertible to gold. The Federal Reserve would have had to execute an expansionary monetary policy...
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Interchangeability Agreement between the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam (Monetary Authority of Brunei Darussalam)...
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Federal Reserve (section Monetary policy)
(particularly the panic of 1907) led to the desire for central control of the monetary system in order to alleviate financial crises. Over the years, events such...
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to get the gold standard's conversion rates back on track to pre-WWI levels, by causing deflation and high unemployment through monetary policy. In 1933...
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themselves abandonment of the gold standard The decision by a government to abandon a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is based...
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ECOWAS (redirect from West African Economic and Monetary Union)
a single, stable currency. The launch of the new currency is being developed by the West African Monetary Institute based in Accra, Ghana. Gambia (Founding...
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(itself backed by the United States dollar). Moreover, the currency board, Monetary Authority of Macau (AMCM), has a statutory obligation to issue and redeem...
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Inflation targeting (category Monetary policy)
of monetary systems targeting the price level or the inflation rate, rather than the exchange rate, followed the general crisis of the gold standard after...
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Spanish peseta (redirect from Duro (monetary unit))
290322 grams of gold, the standard used by all the currencies of the Latin Monetary Union. From 1873, only the gold standard applied. In 1883 the peseta...
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the Bahrain Monetary Agency took over the issuance of paper money, and starting in July 1978 with a 20 dinar note, it introduced a new family of notes...
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governed in the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the governmental currency board and central bank of Hong...
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Ptolemaic coinage (redirect from Phoenician standard)
Egypt. Furthermore, monetary isolation was increased by other factors, like considerable inflation and the use of a unique standard to replace the Attic...
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trade. Motivated by the onset of war, countries abandoned the gold standard monetary system. From 1899 to 1913, holdings of countries' foreign exchange...
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