Globalization
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Globalization is the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the economies, markets, societies, and cultures of different countries worldwide. It can be attributed to a series of f
Portuguese carrack in Nagasaki, 17th-century Japanese Nanban art
Native New World crops exchanged globally (clockwise): Maize, tomato, potato, vanilla, rubber, cacao, tobacco
Lisbon in the 1570s had many Africans due to the Atlantic slave trade.
The 1843 launch of the Great Britain, the revolutionary ship of Isambard Kingdom Brunel
International Monetary Fund
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The International Monetary Fund is an international financial institution and a specialized agency of the United Nations, headquartered in Washington, D.C. It consists of 191 member countries, and its
Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Plaque Commemorating the Formation of the IMF in July 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference
The Gold Room within the Mount Washington Hotel, where the Bretton Woods Conference attendees signed the agreements creating the IMF and World Bank
First page of the Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund, 1 March 1946, Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives