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Список вопросов базы знанийПрактический курс перевода (курс 1)Вопрос id:2131603 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Укажите частеречную принадлежность подчеркнутого слова: Its first loans were geared toward the postwar reconstruction of western Europe. Вопрос id:2131604 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Укажите частеречную принадлежность подчеркнутого слова: Loan guarantees and insurance to foreign investors against loss caused by noncommercial risks in developing countries are provided by the MIGA. Вопрос id:2131605 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Укажите частеречную принадлежность подчеркнутого слова: The wealthier and more developed countries constitute the bank's major shareholders and thus exercise greater power and influence. Вопрос id:2131606 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Укажите частеречную принадлежность подчеркнутого слова: The bank obtains its funds from the capital subscriptions of member countries, bond flotations on the world's capital markets, and net earnings accrued from interest payments on IBRD and IFC loans. Вопрос id:2131607 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Укажите частеречную принадлежность подчеркнутого слова: The bank has expanded its lending activities and, with its numerous research and policy divisions, has developed into a powerful and authoritative intergovernmental body. Вопрос id:2131608 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Укажите частеречную принадлежность подчеркнутого слова: The IBRD provides loans at market rates of interest to middle-income developing countries and credit worthy lower-income countries. Вопрос id:2131609 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Укажите частеречную принадлежность подчеркнутого слова: The IDA, founded in 1960, provides interest-free long-term loans, technical assistance, and policy advice to low-income developing countries in areas such as health, education, and rural development. Вопрос id:2131610 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Укажите частеречную принадлежность подчеркнутого слова: The IFC, operating in partnership with private investors, provides loans and loan guarantees and equity financing to business undertakings in developing countries. Вопрос id:2131611 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Укажите частеречную принадлежность подчеркнутого слова: The other countries are grouped into regions, each of which elects one executive director. Вопрос id:2131612 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Укажите частеречную принадлежность подчеркнутого слова: The World Bank Group comprises five constituent institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Вопрос id:2131613 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Укажите частеречную принадлежность подчеркнутого слова: The World Bank is related to the UN, though it is not accountable either to the General Assembly or to the Security Council. Вопрос id:2131614 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Укажите частеречную принадлежность подчеркнутого слова: The World Bank is staffed by more than 10,000 people, roughly one-fourth of whom are posted in developing countries. Вопрос id:2131615 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Укажите частеречную принадлежность подчеркнутого слова: Throughout the World Bank's history, the bank president, who serves as chairman of the Executive Board, has been an American citizen. Вопрос id:2131616 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Укажите частеречную принадлежность подчеркнутого слова: Together with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization, it plays a central role in overseeing economic policy and reforming public institutions in developing countries and defining the global macroeconomic agenda. Вопрос id:2131617 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Укажите частеречную принадлежность подчеркнутого слова: Voting power is based on a country's capital subscription, which is based in turn on its economic resources. Вопрос id:2131618 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Укажите частеречную принадлежность подчеркнутого слова: Whereas the IBRD raises most of its funds on the world's capital markets, the IDA's lending operations are financed through contributions from developed countries. Вопрос id:2131619 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Укажите частеречную принадлежность подчеркнутого слова: World Bank in full is called World Bank Group, it is an international organization affiliated with the United Nations (UN) and designed to finance projects that enhance the economic development of member states. Вопрос id:2131620 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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It also provides technical assistance and | is called World Bank Group, it is an international organization affiliated with the United Nations (UN) and designed to finance projects that enhance the economic development of member states. | Headquartered in Washington, D.C., | policy advice and supervises–on behalf of international creditors–the implementation of free-market reforms. | World Bank in full | the bank is the largest source of financial assistance to developing countries. |
Вопрос id:2131621 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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Founded in 1944 at the UN Monetary and Financial Conference (commonly known as the Bretton Woods Conference), | the postwar reconstruction of western Europe. | Its first loans were geared toward | which was convened to establish a new, post-World War II international economic system, the World Bank officially began operations in June 1946. | Together with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization, | it plays a central role in overseeing economic policy and reforming public institutions in developing countries and defining the global macroeconomic agenda. |
Вопрос id:2131622 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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Beginning in the mid-1950s, it played a major role in financing investments in | infrastructural projects in developing countries, including roads, hydroelectric dams, water and sewage facilities, maritime ports, and airports. | The IBRD provides loans at market rates of interest | the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). | The World Bank Group comprises five constituent institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), | to middle-income developing countries and credit worthy lower-income countries. |
Вопрос id:2131623 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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Whereas the IBRD raises most of its funds on the world's capital markets, | the IDA's lending operations are financed through contributions from developed countries. | The IFC, operating in partnership with private investors, provides loans and | loan guarantees and equity financing to business undertakings in developing countries. | The IDA, founded in 1960, provides interest-free long-term loans, technical assistance, | and policy advice to low-income developing countries in areas such as health, education, and rural development. |
Вопрос id:2131624 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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Loan guarantees and insurance to foreign investors against loss caused by | former U.S. secretary of defense Robert S. McNamara. | Finally, the ICSID, which operates independently | of the IBRD, is responsible for the settlement by conciliation or arbitration of investment disputes between foreign investors and their host developing countries. | From 1968 to 1981 the president of the World Bank was | noncommercial risks in developing countries are provided by the MIGA. |
Вопрос id:2131625 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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Under his leadership the bank formulated the concept of “sustainable development,” | has developed into a powerful and authoritative intergovernmental body. | The bank has expanded its lending activities and, with its numerous research and policy divisions, | developing countries as a means of narrowing the income gap between rich and poor countries. | Another feature of the concept was its use of capital flows (in the form of development assistance and foreign investment) to | which attempted to reconcile economic growth and environmental protection in developing countries. |
Вопрос id:2131626 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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Five major countries–the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and France– | each of which elects one executive director. | The World Bank is related to the UN, | though it is not accountable either to the General Assembly or to the Security Council. | The other countries are grouped into regions, | appoint their own executive directors. |
Вопрос id:2131627 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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The governors are usually their | countries' finance ministers or central bank governors. | Although the board of governors has some influence on IBRD policies, | actual decision-making power is wielded largely by the bank's 24 executive directors. | Each of the bank's more than 180 member states are represented | on the board of governors, which meets once a year. |
Вопрос id:2131628 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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Throughout the World Bank's history, the bank president, | which is based in turn on its economic resources. | Voting power is based on a country's capital subscription, | who serves as chairman of the Executive Board, has been an American citizen. | The wealthier and more developed countries constitute | the bank's major shareholders and thus exercise greater power and influence. |
Вопрос id:2131629 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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The bank obtains its funds from | the capital subscriptions of member countries, bond flotations on the world's capital markets, and net earnings accrued from interest payments on IBRD and IFC loans. | For example, at the beginning | of the 21st century the United States exercised more than one-sixth of the votes, more than double that of Japan, the second largest contributor. | Because developing countries hold only a small number of votes–e.g., | in the late 1990s approximately 2 percent of the votes were held by 25 African countries combined–the system does not provide a significant voice for these countries, which are the primary recipients of World Bank loans and policy advice. |
Вопрос id:2131630 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия: Левая часть | Правая часть |
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World Bank in full is called World Bank Group,
| Doesn’t it? | It was designed to finance projects that enhance the economic development of member states, | Wasn’t it? | It also provides technical assistance and policy advice and supervises–on behalf of international creditors–the implementation of free-market reforms. | Is’t it? |
Вопрос id:2131631 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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The IMF is headed by a board of governors, each of whom represents one of | the organization's approximately 180 memberstates. | The fund's day-to-day operations are administered by an executive board, | countries' finance ministers or central bank directors, attend annual meetings on IMF issues. | The governors, who are usually their | which consists of 24 executive directors who meet at least three times a week. |
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The board is chaired by a managing director, who is appointed | board rarely conducts formal voting. | Eight directors represent individual countries (China, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, and the United States), | by the board for a renewable five-year term and supervises the fund's staff of nearly 3,000 employees from more than 120 countries. | Because it makes most decisions by consensus, the executive | and the other 16 represent the fund's remaining members, grouped by world regions. |
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For example, the United States' approximately $50 billion contribution to date is the most | an American. | The quotas form a pool of loanable funds and determine how | much money each member can borrow and how much voting power it will have. | The managing director is usually a European, and not, by tradition, | of any IMF member, accounting for approximately 18 percent of total quotas. |
Вопрос id:2131634 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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The Group of Seven industrialized nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States) | about 18 percent of the total votes on both the board of governors and the executive board. | Accordingly, the United States receives | controls nearly 50 percent of the fund's total votes. | Under the original Articles of Agreement, the IMF supervised | a modified gold standard system of pegged, or stable, currency exchange rates. |
Вопрос id:2131635 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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Treasury tied the dollar to gold by agreeing to buy and sell | gold to other governments at $35 per ounce. | Each member declared a value for its currency relative to the | U.S. dollar,
and in turn the U.S. | A country's exchange rate could vary | only 1 percent above or below its declared value. |
Вопрос id:2131636 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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Since then each member has been permitted to choose the method it uses to determine its exchange rate: a free float, in which the exchange rate for | greater than 1 percent only for countries in “fundamental balance-of-payments disequilibrium” and only after consultation with, and approval by, the fund. | In August 1971 U.S. President Richard Nixon ended this system of pegged exchange | rates by refusing to sell gold to other governments at the stipulated price. | Seeking to eliminate competitive devaluations, the IMF permitted exchange rate movements | a country's currency is determined by the supply and demand of that currency on the international currency markets; a managed float, in which a country's monetary officials will occasionally intervene in international currency markets to buy or sell its currency to influence short-term exchange rates;
a pegged exchange arrangement, in which a country's monetary officials pledge to tie their currency's exchange rate to another currency or group of currencies; or a fixed exchange arrangement, in which a country's currency exchange rate is tied to another currency and is unchanging. |
Вопрос id:2131637 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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When the IMF | was established toward the end of World War II, it was based on a modified form of the gold standard. | The system resembled the gold standard in that each country | established a legal gold valuation for its currency. | After losing its authority to regulate currency exchange rates, the IMF shifted | its focus to loaning money to developing countries. |
Вопрос id:2131638 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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This valuation was registered with | the International Monetary Fund. | The gold valuations served to | determine parities of exchange between the different currencies. | As stated above, | such fixed currencies are said to be pegged to one another. |
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But there was a difference in | the technical mode of operation. | There was agreement with the International Monetary Fund about the range, | for the actual exchange quotation to deviate somewhat on either side of the official parity. | It was also possible, as under the old gold standard, | on either side of parity, within which a currency was allowed to fluctuate. |
Вопрос id:2131640 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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The service of the arbitrageurs in | remitting physical gold from country to country as needed was dispensed with. | This they did by intervening | in the foreign exchange market. | Instead the authorities were placed under an obligation to ensure that the actual exchange rates quoted within | their own territories did not go outside the limits agreed upon with the International Monetary Fund. |
Вопрос id:2131641 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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If, for instance, the dollar was in short supply in London, | of the members of the International Monetary Fund. | Thus, the obligation of the monetary authorities to supply the currency of any Fund member at a rate of | exchange that was not above the agreed-upon limit took the place of the obligation under the old gold standard to give actual gold in exchange for currency. | The same was true with the other currencies | the British authorities were bound to supply dollars to the market to whatever extent was needed to keep the sterling price of the dollar from rising above the agreed-upon limit. |
Вопрос id:2131642 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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It would be inconvenient for the monetary authorities | and supplying from time to time whatever quantity of dollars might be required. | At this point the arbitrageurs | of a country to be continually watching the exchange rates in its market of all the different currencies. | Most authorities confined themselves to watching the rate of their own currency against the dollar | came into service again. |
Вопрос id:2131643 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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This use of the dollar by many monetary authorities | such a way that the exchange rates between the various currencies in the various foreign exchange markets could be kept mutually consistent. | They could be relied upon to operate in | caused it to be called a currency of “intervention.” | The official fixing of exchange rates as limits on either side of parity, outside of | which exchange-rate quotations were not allowed to fluctuate, bears a family resemblance to the gold points of the old gold standard system. |
Вопрос id:2131644 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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In the old system it arose necessarily | a fixed parity of exchange from which no deviation would be allowed? | Since there was no corresponding cost in the new system, why did the authorities decide not to have | out of the cost of remitting gold. | The question naturally arose why, in devising a somewhat | different system, it was considered desirable to keep this range of fluctuation. |
Вопрос id:2131645 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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There would always be fluctuations, and | if there were one rigidly fixed rate of exchange the authorities would have to supply from their reserves various currencies to meet them. | Supply and demand between each pair of currencies | range within which fluctuation was allowed. | The answer was that there was convenience in having a | would not be precisely equal every day. |
Вопрос id:2131646 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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That is, short-term capital flows are likely to reduce the | likely to be equilibrating if people are confident that parities will be maintained. | In addition to being inconvenient, this would require each | size of overall balance-of-payments deficits or surpluses. | Under a system of pegged exchange rates, short-term capital movements are | country to maintain much larger reserves than would otherwise be necessary. |
Вопрос id:2131647 Тема/шкала: 0833.06.01;Т-Т.01;1 - Тест-тренинг - ПКОЯз.Англ. Практический курс перевода (курс 1) Установите соответствия Левая часть | Правая часть |
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The United States had been running a heavy deficit since 1958, | short-term capital flows are likely to be disequilibrating, adding to underlying balance-of-payments deficits or surpluses. | As early as 1961 there were signs of a | and the United Kingdom plunged into one in 1960. | On the other hand, if people expect a parity to be changed, | crisis in the IMF system. |
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Per Jacobssen, then managing director of the IMF, persuaded | need to draw upon continental European currencies in excess of the amounts available. | It looked as if these two countries might | extended to other important countries, the currencies of which might run short at some future time. | The plan was not confined to the countries that happened to be in credit at that time but was | a group of countries to provide standby credits, so that supplementary supplies of their currencies would be available. |
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They became known as the “Group | of Ten.” | This plan was known | as the “General Arrangements to Borrow.” | The countries were 10 in number: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, West Germany, | Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, and Japan. |
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The arrangement was subject to the | as against the International Monetary Fund itself. | This put them in a power position | agreement that countries actually supplying additional currency would have the right to take cognizance of how the Fund used it. | Since then the Group | of Ten has worked together in deliberating on international monetary problems. |
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Their deputies meet more | frequently for detailed work on particular problems. | The dominant position gained by the Group of Ten has been | due not only to their provision of standby credit but also to the manner in which they do their business. | The ultimate authority of the Group resides in the finance ministers | of the countries concerned, who meet from time to time. |
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These deputies consist of high-ranking persons in their respective treasuries and central banks; they are resident in their own | countries and have day-to-day knowledge of their problems and of what is politically feasible. | In this respect they are in a much more advantageous
| position than the executive directors of the International Monetary Fund, who live in Washington, D.C., and have less contact with their home government; they also tend to be persons of higher standing and authority. | Finance is the process of raising funds | or capital for any kind of expenditure. |
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