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(OECD),the Bank for International Settlements (BIS),the
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
(UNCTAD),the World Group and other organizations.
The international monetary system is afflicted with
problems. The main reason is that the nations that participate in
it are politically independent but economically and financially
interdependent.
This discrepancy determines the functions of the
international monetary system; at its best, the system acts to
reconcile the conflicting economic policies of its politically
independent members.
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n order to perform this reconciling function, the system is
concerned, first, with how nations act to influence their
balance-of-payment positions, with their policies that affect
exchange rates.
The system is concerned, second, with how nations settle
their accounts with one another. Third, the system is concerned
with the amount and form of international money.
In broad terms, the international monetary system
involves the management, on one way or another, of three
processes:
1) the adjustment of balance-of-payments positions,
including the establishment and alteration of exchange rates.
2) the financing of payments imbalances among countries
by the use of credit or reserves; and
3) the provision of international money.
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