Dollars, Debt, and Deficits: Sixty Years After Bretton Woods

Seminar Volumes, September 1, 2005

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Examines the challenges facing the international monetary and financial system, as well as the future role of the Bretton Woods institutions in addressing those challenges.
Based on the proceedings of a 2004 conference cosponsored by the Banco de Espana and the International Monetary Fund to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Bretton Woods meetings in July 1944.
Chapters look at global imbalances, exchange rate issues, debt in emerging economies, and innovations in private and multilateral lending.
Publication date: September 1, 2005.

Global imbalances: analysis and discussion present across multiple chapters.
Exchange rate issues: coverage includes exchange rate adjustments, exchange rate arrangements, exchange rate depreciation, exchange-rate regime, and real exchange rates.
Debt in emerging economies: examination of public debt, debt ratio, short-term debt, and implications for IMF program/IMF programme engagement.
Innovations in private and multilateral lending: consideration of evolving creditor structures and lending mechanisms.
Regional and topical foci: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Caribbean, Central America, Central Asia, East Asia; topics such as current account deficit, foreign assets, external position, and balance sheet effect.

Subjects: Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rates, External position, Foreign assets, Foreign exchange, Public debt, Real exchange rates
Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, balance sheet effect, Caribbean, Central America, Central Asia, current account deficit, debt ratio, East Asia, Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rate arrangements, exchange rate depreciation, exchange rate regime, Exchange rates, exchange-rate regime, Foreign assets, Global, IMF program, IMF programme, IMF surveillance, Real exchange rates, SEM, short-term debt