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Bretton woods agreement pdfBretton Woods Agreement • April 9th, 2021
the conference of bretton woods, officially known as the monetary and financial conference of the United Nations, was a meeting of delegates from 44 nations who met from 1 to 22 July 1944 in bretton woods, new hampshire, to agree on a series of new rules for the post-WII international monetary system. the two major achievements of the conference were the creation of the international monetary fund (fmi) and the international bank for reconstruction and development (ibrd.) lessons from U.S. politicians from the interwar period informed the institutions created at the conference. officers such as the franklin president of roosevelt and the secretary of state cordell hull were members of the Wilsonian belief that free trade not only promoted international prosperity, but also international peace. the experience of the 1930s certainly suggested so much. the policies adopted by governments to combat the great depression - high tariff barriers, competitive currency devaluations, discriminato
