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    organizations have drawn more than their share fair share of criticism as well as praise. Modern nations require thoroughly understand of these organizations. The IMF’s beginnings derived from two tragedies. In the latter days of World War II at the Bretton Woods conference took place in New Hampshire in 1944. Between the great depression and the economic devastation of World War II the confidence in

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    contracts when an intermediary acts as counterparty. Counterparty risk usually related to an institution which facing creditworthiness. In this context, the financial system that include banks, broker dealers and non-banking institutions will face counterparty risk. Counterparty risk will be a cumulative loss to the financial system from a counterparty that fails to deliver on its over the counter derivative obligation. For the example, in listed derivatives market, the industry’s or the exchange

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    International Monetary Fund (IMF) were created in 1944 by leaders of the 44 nations at the Bretton Woods Conference. The Bank was responsible for financing long term productive investment in member countries while the IMF was to provide loans to overcome short-term balance of payments deficits. Western leaders feared an unregulated world market would mean a return to depression, poverty and another world war. At Bretton Woods (located in New Hampshire, U.S.), “the decisive factor was the reality of American

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    written in a Bretton Woods Agreement, and the subsequent creation of the International Monetary Fund and its fixed exchange rate, the World Bank, is the prevailing wisdom. Freedman's analysis of how to exercise, a flexible exchange rate will improve the balance of payments is a pioneering adjust the real. He critically tears parameters, a flexible exchange rate would encourage instability and his position is about 20 years later, when the world moved to a flexible exchange rate system. Friedman's

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    1. INTRODUCTION "If you want to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some." This quote by Benjamin Franklin seems to have laid a foundation for several financial concepts and practices. International trade and domestic monetary policy of a country are closely connected to each other. A financial incentive can increase export opportunities for trading partners whereas foreign exchange controls for balance of payments can inhibit exports. Intervention of the Apex bank in foreign exchange

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    Fiat money is any legal currency that is not backed by a physical commodity, nor does it require a substantial value for the material. Fiat money is referred to those currency does not use some valuable kind as the currency standard. Fiat money does not represent the actual things and goods. Virtually, all paper money in the world today is fiat money, along with most coin currencies. Next, as same as money, we used today. That the government retains more and a suitable amount of the commodity, which

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    In the 19th and early 20th century, the world's economies grew interconnected and entangled as trade, capital, investment, migration and technology thrived. This international integration forms the basis for globalization and arises from exchange and interbreeding of perspectives, ideas and aspects of culture. This modern economic and global point of view posits that globalization increases trade, raises wages, heightens living standards, and betters the market discipline. With its roots in free

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    This inevitably led to major inflation affected the globe. Post–World War I there was an attempt to restore the system, the UK attempted to maintain the pre-war rate for the pound and the economy suffered as a result, and massive unemployment followed. This led to major criticism of the system, JM Keynes famously said in 1923; “In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.” The USA kept the gold standard throughout WWI, and most countries

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    more stable, secure way to trade with one another. Countries who adopted the Gold Standard saw greater symmetry, and lower costs of trade (Alesina and Barro, 2002). The Gold Standard was like a “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval”, which was a system of adherence between countries to have cheaper trading. The more a country adhered to the gold standard, the less they were charged during trade. Countries, who did not adhere or only moderately adhered, were charged a considerably higher rate during

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    economic reforms in public institutions in the developing world an it also has the function of setting the global economic agenda (Chossudovsky, 2017). The World Bank was created in 1944 as part of the Bretton Woods Agreement which had the purpose to establish a new post World War Two economic system. Its played a central role in the reconstruction of Western Europe as well as financing infrastructural projects in the developing world, some of these projects included building roads, hydroelectric dams

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