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 ...

In July of 1944, representatives from 44 nations met at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire for the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference. The United States ...

Bretton Woods was instrumental in rescuing a world devastated by wars, incompetent governance and geopolitical confusion. As Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the IMF, pointed out earlier ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...