The currency was in theory governed by a rules based Currency Board, which the British invented for their smaller colonies. It tied the local currency to the British Pound, giving local authorities no discretion in monetary policy.

It tied the local currency to the British Pound, giving local authorities no discretion in monetary policy.

Salaries are paid in local currency while allowances are paid in US dollars.

Another promising development is the growth of local currency bond markets.

It is also the name of the local currency (abbreviation GTQ).

Local currency government debt markets have performed fairly well during the crisis, while local currency corporate debt markets have played a more modest role as a vehicle for longer term finance.

Ironically, today s pain stems from one of the great successes that emerging economies have achieved the reduction of foreign currency funding in favor of local currency debt.

These markets have been insulated in part because most investment in real estate backed securities has come from local investors who often need to invest in local currency markets.

The exchange rate explains part, but not all, of the increase, since 13 countries actually increased contributions in local currency.

The local currency is the Falkland Islands pound, which is pegged to the British pound sterling.

In most countries, such intervention would tend to push up inflation, because the central bank issues local currency in return for dollars.

Some 18 Governments increased their contributions to regular resources in local currency and 14 increased by 7 per cent or more.

Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCR) recalled that the change of currency was due to the invasion of feeble Bolivian currency that, since 1840, entered the country through the Southern zone, thus provoking confusion with the local currency.

All organizations whose expenditures, like those of the secretariat, are predominantly incurred in local currency experience problems arising from exchange rate fluctuations.

In 2009, sharp drops in commodity prices and the effects of the global financial crisis caused the local currency to drop 40 against the U.S. dollar.

But, as these investments bolster economic growth, increased tax revenues would imply more sustainable financing, as would local governments ability to leverage land markets and approach local currency debt markets.

Local currency bond markets could help to develop domestic investor bases and mobilize domestic savings to support long term investments.

For one thing, it is folly to think that more local currency debt eliminates the possibility of a financial crisis.

Finally, local currency bond markets and, more generally, domestic capital markets in emerging economies must be explored further, in order to lengthen the tenure of financial flows.

Governments may be able to mobilize funding through debt swaps, where donors exchange debt for local currency investment in environmental protection, such as waste water treatment.

The other 89 resulted from 222 growth in dollar prices in that period, as local currency prices rose faster than prices in the US and the exchange rate appreciated.

Policymakers in many emerging market countries worry that surging capital inflows will drive up the value of the local currency, destabilize financial markets, and fuel economic overheating.

They have also paid back a significant share of external debt and converted much of what remains into more manageable local currency liabilities.

Many countries therefore view the development of local currency bond markets to be an important policy priority that reduces vulnerability to external shocks.

Some of the Asia Pacific and Latin American and Caribbean countries have begun to issue long term, local currency bonds to promote investments.

3. Takes note of the updated list of hard currency duty stations for which the allowances are specified in local currency, as contained in annex VIII to the report of the Commission Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty fifth Session, Supplement No. 30 (A 55 30).

It is encouraging that 10 OECD DAC members increased their contribution to regular resources in 2004 in local currency terms, many for the fourth consecutive year, or resumed their contributions.

The implication is that the dollar, the euro, and the renminbi will share the roles of invoicing currency, settlement currency, and reserve currency in coming years.

In this context, IMF has been advising developing countries to develop domestic bond markets to raise funds through long term fixed interest securities denominated in the local currency as an alternative to borrowing from abroad.

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There have, of course, been many examples in history in which currency unions or single currency states have broken up.

This is Lewes in Sussex, who have recently launched the Lewes Pound, a currency that you can only spend within the town, as a way of starting to cycle money within the local economy.

Since the amount of foreign reserves available to defend a weak currency (a currency in low demand) is limited, a currency crisis or devaluation could be the end result.

The term community in this context includes local people, local institutions, local agencies and the local council.

Policymakers in the industrial core looked the other way as rapidly growing East Asian countries acquired Western technologies and industrial capabilities through unorthodox policies such as subsidies, local content requirements, reverse engineering, and currency undervaluation.

Currency Chaos

The dollar (currency code TTD) is the currency of Trinidad and Tobago.

While the Panel finds that these losses are compensable in principle, the Panel notes that currency losses generally, and particularly currency losses relating to Iraqi dinars, are particularly difficult to verify. Ownership of currency is generally proven through possession of the currency.

The currency was in theory governed by a rules based Currency Board, which the British invented for their smaller colonies.

In 2003 the government of Hugo Chávez implemented currency controls after capital flight led to a devaluation of the currency.

That was the reason for approaching regional development banks which could provide loans in the local currency, unlike the World Bank whose lending was denominated in dollars, which might expose some countries to the risks of exchange rate fluctuations.

Seventeen donor countries and EU increased their contributions in 2003.7 Of the countries that registered increases in funding levels, three countries had actually decreased their contributions in terms of their local currency, but showed an increase in terms of the United States dollar.

After all, a weaker currency and better trade balance in some countries necessarily implies a stronger currency and a weaker trade balance in others.

The collapse of Latin America s currency pegs in the financial crises of the 1990 s contributed to a shift in the world s currency paradigm.

China s Currency Conundrum