Washington Consensus
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The Washington Consensus is a set of ten economic policy prescriptions considered in the 1980s and 1990s to constitute the "standard" reform package promoted for crisis-wracked developing countries by
Argentine President Carlos Menem
A group of rioters attempting to push over a bus during the Caracazo
Bretton Woods system
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The Bretton Woods system of monetary management established the rules for commercial relations among 44 countries, including the United States, Canada, European countries, and Australia, after the 194
Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State 1933–44
Roosevelt and Churchill's secret meeting of 9–12 August 1941 in Newfoundland resulted in the Atlantic Charter, which the U.S. and Britain officially announced two days later.
John Maynard Keynes (right) and Harry Dexter White at the inaugural meeting of the International Monetary Fund's Board of Governors in Savannah, Georgia, U.S., 8 March 1946