FASH 229 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Unfair Competition, Mexican Peso, Transatlantic Trade And Investment Partnership
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International trade identified as a primary force that could bind nations together: help rebuild europe and japan; ie the marshall plan, make nations more independent in the likelihood future wars may be avoided. New organizations developed to encourage and regulate trade among member nations: general agreement on tariff and trade, international monetary fund, world bank, and others. New technologies supported the development as well. Jet planes: container ships, pipelines, fax/telex, computers, global banking systems. July 1944, in the midst of wwii, un monetary and financial conference; Bretton woods, new hampshire: 750 delegates from, 44 allied nations: uk, china, france (colonies), soviet union, united. New zealand, norway, poland, provisional government of the. Republic of korea, south africa, yugoslavia, egypt, british raj (india), Iraq, iran, bulgaria, mongolia, romania, tannu tuva, italy, albania: to prepare for rebuilding postwar economic system, international monetary fund (imf)- to promote international monetary cooperation. As well as the international bank for reconstruction and.
