Bretton Woods Conference, 1944
- Bretton Woods Conference, 1944
Following discussions led by U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Harry Dexter White and the British Treasury representative John Maynard Keynes about ways to ensure postwar economic stability and prevent another Great Depression, representatives of 45 nations met in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in July 1944. The International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or World Bank, sprang from the agreements reached and established, among other things, the principles of international monetary exchange with currencies fixed on the gold standard. This provided the basic framework for much of the Western industrial world until the 1970s.
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