When French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a "new Bretton Woods" agreement in October 2008 ... Formal conferences were occasionally an important element ...

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 ...

In July of 1944, representatives from 44 nations met at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire for the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference. The United States ...

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 ...