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Bretton Woods Remembered in a Century of Monetary Cooperation
A veteran observer reflects on the 1944 Bretton Woods conference in New Hampshire where IMF and World Bank were created to stabilize postwar currencies and rebuild global trade. He notes the skepticism then and how those institutions grew to global scale, with ongoing steps to strengthen the IMF, G ten secrecy, and a wide network of currency arrangements among nations.
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New York
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Bretton Woods
New Hampshire
United and Associated Nations
International Monetary Fund
World Bank
IMF
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U.S
London
U. S. Treasury
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Tokyo
Britain
Germany
France
Italy
Sweden
Japan
Canada
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Belgium
Switzerland
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