Reform of the international monetary system: a modest proposal

Reform of the international monetary system is back on the official agenda, for the first time since 1974, 37 years ago. France's president Nicolas Sarkozy called last year for a "new Bretton Woods conference", and has set reform high on the agenda of the G-20, of which he is chairman in 2011. A start was made at the Seoul summit in November 2010, when the G-20 leaders requested the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to identify "indicative guidelines" for large imbalances in payments.

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