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 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 ...

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 ...

In 1944 the major world powers met at the Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire in the United States to organize an international monetary system that would alleviate many of the foreign ...

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

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 laid the groundwork for the Bretton Woods system in 1944, where the U.S. dollar became the world’s reserve currency — pegged to gold, while other currencies were pegged to the dollar.