The SDR and its potential as an international reserve asset (English)

Since the onset of the global financial crisis, there has been an upswing of interest among some prominent policy makers and academics in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Special Drawing Right (SDR) as a 'safe' international reserve asset. But preexisting constraints on the SDR and the magnitude of support required to push through the reforms necessary to enhance the SDR's role make it unlikely that ambitious aspirations for this 'quasi-currency'...

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Chelsky,Jeffrey Allen;
Document Date
2011/05/01
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
62095
Volume No
1
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1
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World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2011/05/26
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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The SDR and its potential as an international reserve asset
Keywords
Poverty Reduction & Economic Management

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Chelsky,Jeffrey Allen.

The SDR and its potential as an international reserve asset (English). Economic premise ; no. 58 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/723721468330958502

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