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27 février 2009
- handle: 10670/1.1xbnyu
- halshs: halshs-00402275
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regional monetary zone monetary agreements Latin America zone monétaire monnaie politique monétaire échange international paiement Amérique LatineSujets proches
Neotropical region Neotropics New World tropics Spanish America Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countriesCiter ce document
Jean-François Ponsot et al., « Regional currencies and regional monetary zones in Latin America : what prospects ? », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10670/1.1xbnyu
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This paper aims at drawing lessons from Keynes's plan presented at the Bretton Woods conference, in order to help improving current regional monetary agreements in Latin America. Some promoters of the Bank of the South and the New Financial Architecture in Latin America are proposing to implement a regional clearing system designed to allow a multilateral offsetting of the liabilities and assets generated in the reciprocal transactions of member countries in words that the British economist certainly would not have denied. This system would be very different from current regional payments aggreements that maintain an implicit reference to the US dollar as reserve or payment currency.