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Bretton WoodsTownship in New Hampshire, USA, where the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference was held in 1944 to discuss post-war international payments problems. The agreements reached on financial assistance and measures to stabilize exchange rates led to the creation of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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What is equally striking is the constant reluctance of the developed nations to endow the General Assembly, and indirectly the Council, with effective powers on the allocation of international funds while still in favour of retaining the power of the Bretton Woods institutions, over which the Group of Eight (G-8) has effective control. Its despicable dealings with the Nazis in receiving and laundering the shipments of plunder explain why the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement establishing the IMF and the World Bank also called for the abolition of the BIS. Trippon, CPA, Bretton Woods Press, Bellaire, Texas, www. |
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