Define the international Monetary System and the Bretton Woods System.


International Monetary System and the Bretton Woods System were the results of post-war economic conditions. In 1944, Bretton Woods System was adopted in the presence of representatives from forty-four countries, at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.


• It introduced a dollar-based economic system by replacing a gold-based system.


• Decision-making authority was given to Western industrial power


•IMF was given the task to settle the balance of surplus and shortage of economy of its member nations.


• World Bank was established and it started its function from 1947 to make all financial reconstruction.


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