The Bretton Woods system established the U.S. dollar as the world’s currency in the post-World War II global economy. As Allied forces viewed that the war was coming to an end, representatives ...

During World War II, the U.K. and U.S. Treasuries initiated plans to overcome ... Preparations for what would become the Bretton Woods conference began in earnest in the middle of 1943. Keynes ...

The foundations of Bretton Woods II crumbled last week when the G7 seized Russia’s foreign exchange reserves, the investment bank said. The Russian-Ukrainian war will create a new world financial ...

The Bretton Woods Agreement helped to establish institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the lender that became the World Bank. With the end of the war in sight, the U.S. and 43 ...

Bretton Woods Conference delegates including U.K delegate and Commission II leader Lord John Maynard Keynes (center). Years of planning and discussion preceded Bretton Woods and laid the foundation ...

each invoked the memory of “Bretton Woods,” the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century’s second great war ...

Bretton Woods was instrumental in rescuing a world devastated by wars, incompetent governance and geopolitical confusion. As Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the IMF, pointed out earlier ...

The global economic cooperation that has held sway since the end of World War II is challenged by new political forces ... The postwar system created at the Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, conference in ...

Following World War II, the global economic consensus favored ... and the breakdown of the Bretton Woods monetary system. This period of skepticism led to the rise of neoliberal ideas, promoted ...