Argentina, Lebanon, Turkey and numerous other countries are in the grips of serious inflation. This episode of What’s Ahead discusses a device, which when properly employed promptly ends debilitating ...

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In his letter (Aug. 15) responding to my op-ed “Floating Currencies Compound Uncertainty” (Aug. 9), Prof. William Miles states that “currency boards would lead to more of the banking crises, debt ...

Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) are certainly right to take President Obama and Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel to task for not adopting a very much tougher line towards Russia ...

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Bulgaria's latest stabilization program, which included the introduction of a currency board, marked the end of a period of economic turmoil and near-hyperinflation. What accounts for its success?

Our eLibrary offers over 25,000 IMF publications in multiple formats. This paper focuses on the process leading to the choice of a currency board as a stabilization instrument, and its specific design ...