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Jump to navigationJump to search- 17:24, 20 November 2010 diff hist +1,879 N Washington Consensus New page: Washington Consensus refers to a set of ideas that were dominant in IMF and World Bank policy from 1980 to 2008. This term was coined by John Williamson in 1989, and comprised of 10 princi...
- 21:38, 21 October 2010 diff hist +835 N Currency reform New page: Currency reform, in the post-WWI context, is one of the three different ways to return to the international monetary system. Countries which have particularly lost the war were suffering f... current
- 21:19, 21 October 2010 diff hist +1,370 N Polanyi's thesis New page: Karl Polanyi's thesis, or "Polanyian" approaches to understanding why Great Britain shifted away from the gold standard. This was a significant shift in the sense that Great Britain was th...
- 16:20, 14 October 2010 diff hist +861 N Purchasing Power Parity New page: Purchasing Power Parity relies on the assumption that a unit of currency (let's say $) has the same purchasing power in every market even after taking into account various barriers or spec... current
- 15:55, 14 October 2010 diff hist +1,072 N Bimetallism New page: Bimetallism is a monetary standard which establishes a fixed rate of exchange among two metals; most commonly gold and silver. The value of the monetary unit, in this case, is defined as e...
- 22:10, 10 October 2010 diff hist +2,323 N World Trade Organization New page: The WTO is the successor to the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade), and it aims to oversee and liberalize international trade. The issues it focuses on mostly derive from the Ur...
- 20:56, 30 September 2010 diff hist +1,230 Smoot-Hawley Tariff
- 20:53, 30 September 2010 diff hist +427 Smoot-Hawley Tariff
- 20:50, 30 September 2010 diff hist +1,174 N Smoot-Hawley Tariff New page: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff was a law concerning tariff levels signed in 1930, as a response to the Great Depression. Championed by two republicans, it raised American tariff levels to the sec...
- 20:33, 24 September 2010 diff hist +470 N Sterilization New page: Sterilization incorporates the actions taken by a country's central bank that aim to neutralize the affects foreign exchange operations cause in a currency's value. If capital inflows to a...
- 20:31, 24 September 2010 diff hist -5 Capital account
- 20:31, 24 September 2010 diff hist +27 Capital account
- 20:31, 24 September 2010 diff hist +569 N Capital account New page: Capital account is a part of the balance of payments, together with current account. Capital account means the net change in the national ownership of assets. It can be calculated as: [[F...
- 20:24, 24 September 2010 diff hist +970 N Current account balance New page: Current account is one of the two major parts of the balance of payments (the other being capital account). The current account balance, in essence, is trade balance plus net factor income... current
- 20:09, 24 September 2010 diff hist +640 N Foreign direct investment New page: Foreign direct investment is a commitment by a country to another to invest a certain amount of money for a long term. It encompasses management, joint venture, transfer of technology and ... current
- 11:05, 16 September 2010 diff hist +1,903 Hegemonic stability theory