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Record 1 2001-12-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
  • National and International Economics
DEF

In international finance, the situation where the demand for a particular nation's currency threatens to exhaust the available supply at the usual rates of exchange.

OBS

When a currency becomes scarce in the International Monetary Fund, members of the Fund are authorized to introduce exchange restrictions against that nation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
  • Économie nationale et internationale

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Política monetaria y mercado de cambios
  • Economía nacional e internacional
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