Exchange Rate Arrangements and Currency Convertibility: Developments and Issues

September 24, 1999

Summary

This study reviews the developments and issues in the exchange arrangements and currency convertibility of IMF members. The principal information source for this report is the Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions prepared in consultation with national authorities.

Subject: Currency markets, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rates, Exchange restrictions, Financial markets, Foreign exchange

Keywords: Africa, arrangement practice, Asia and Pacific, Baltics, control, Currency markets, deutsche mark, Exchange rate arrangements, exchange rate band, Exchange rates, Exchange restrictions, forward market, Global, liberalization, managed float, market, market decision making, single currency, U.S. dollar, WEFS, West Africa

Pages:
182
Volume:
1999
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557757951.083
Issue:
017
Series:
World Economic and Financial Surveys No. 1999/017
Stock No:
WEOEA0191999
ISBN:
9781557757951
ISSN:
0258-7440

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Notes

By a staff team in the Monetary and Exchange Affairs Department led by R. Barry Johnston with Mark Swinburne, Alexander Kyei, Bernard Laurens, David Mitchem, Inci Otker, Susana Sosa, and Natalia Tamirisa.

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