Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Law
The International Bank For Reconstruction And Development--A New Departure In International Finance, Robert L. Garner
The International Bank For Reconstruction And Development--A New Departure In International Finance, Robert L. Garner
Vanderbilt Law Review
Early in World War II, financial and economic experts of the Allied Nations concluded that if economic health was to return with the peace, the family of nations would have to forego the bad economic manners which had become commonplace between the wars. The conviction that a new and better economic household for the world had to be planned resulted in the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in July, 1944, in which representatives of 44 nations participated.
The Conference met to solve two major problems. The first of these grew out of the chaotic …