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Enhancing International Monetary Stability--A Role for the SDR?

January 7, 2011

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Enhancing International Monetary Stability--A Role for the SDR?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 0) accessed December 9, 2024

Summary

The SDR has enjoyed renewed attention lately in the context of debates on international monetary reform. To be sure, the term SDR has been used to refer to three different concepts—(i) a composite reserve asset created in 1969: the “official SDR” as defined in the Fund’s Articles; (ii) a potential new class of reserve assets: tradable SDRdenominated securities issued by the Fund or an investment vehicle backed by a subset of the Fund’s membership; and (iii) a unit of account, which could be used to price internationally traded assets (e.g., sovereign bonds) and goods (e.g., commodities), to peg currencies, and to report balance of payments data. All three are discussed in this paper.

Subject: Basket of currencies composition, Exchange rate stability, Exchange rate variability, International monetary system, Reserve assets, Reserves accumulation, SDR role, SDR valuation basket, SDRs

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