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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Bretton Woods Agreement, signed in July 1944, marked a significant turning point in international economic relations following World War II. Convened at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton ...

The Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. On July 1, 1944, as the battles of the Second World War raged in Europe and the Pacific, delegates from forty-four nations met at the ...

The Bretton Woods conference established a highly regulated international currency system. The United States dollar was established as the international currency fixed at the rate of $35 per ounce ...

When French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a "new Bretton Woods" agreement in October 2008, they were recalling the success of the International Monetary ...

This site from the Joint IMF and World Bank Library comprises nine brief segments with information about the Bretton Woods meeting of 1944. Institutions evolve in market economies to help individuals ...

This year marks the 75 th anniversary of the Bretton Woods conference that created the World Bank and its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund (IMF). From July 1 to 22, 1944, ...

The Bretton Woods Agreement, signed in July 1944, marked a significant turning point in international economic relations ...