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What Was the Bretton Woods System? How Did It End?
The Bretton Woods system established the U.S. dollar as the world’s currency in the post-World War II global economy. As Allied forces viewed that the war was coming to an end, representatives ...
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Bretton Woods and the Birth of the World Bank
The Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. On July 1, 1944, as the battles of the Second World War raged in Europe and the Pacific, delegates from forty-four nations met at the ...
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What Was the Bretton Woods Agreement? What Institutions Did It Spawn?
The Bretton Woods Agreement helped to establish institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the lender that became the World Bank. With the end of the war in sight, the U.S. and 43 ...
World Bank4 年
75th Anniversary of Bretton Woods Events
This year marks the 75 th anniversary of the Bretton Woods conference that created the World Bank and its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund (IMF). From July 1 to 22, 1944, ...