Allocation of Special Drawing Rights For The Eleventh Basic Period: Draft Executive Board Decision and Managing Director Report to the Board of Governors

July 12, 2021

Summary

On June 25, 2021, the Executive Board discussed a staff paper setting forth the considerations underlying the case for a general allocation of special drawing rights (SDRs) of an amount equivalent to US$650 billion (about SDR 456 billion) during the Eleventh Basic Period and the key features that could be included in the Managing Director’s proposal for this general allocation.

Subject: Central banks, COVID-19, Health, Monetary policy, Political economy, Reserve assets

Keywords: allocation of special drawing rights, COVID-19, Global, participants SDR holding, Reserve assets, SDR allocation, SDR reporting, trading market

Pages:
10
Volume:
2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513585970.007
Issue:
050
Series:
Policy Paper No. 2021/050
Stock No:
PPEA2021050
ISBN:
9781513585970
ISSN:
2663-3493

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