A Special Moment for Special Drawing Rights

Such a solution is readily available in the form of Special Drawing Rights (SDR).

The US ought not to shy away from wider use of IMF Special Drawing Rights.

If necessary, the IMF can issue special drawing rights (SDRs) to generate the global liquidity needed.

Others call for allocating Special Drawing Rights (SDR s) from the IMF, or for using the IMF s gold resources.

I ruled out a role for Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), the accounting unit issued by the International Monetary Fund.

The first is the need for a truly global reserve currency, perhaps based on the IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).

Recognition of this fundamental problem was the reason why the IMF s Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) were created in the 1960 s.

Back then, international monetary diplomacy focused on creating a new form of international reserves, what became the International Monetary Fund s Special Drawing Rights.

In principle, the IMF could be allowed to print money (it already has its own accounting unit, the so called Special Drawing Rights).

Several of them, including Ethiopia, Malawi and South Africa, have already been allocated Special Drawing Rights to help them cope with the economic crisis.

And the G 20 unexpectedly agreed to triple the IMF s resources and bring its reserve currency, special drawing rights (SDRs), back from the dead.

Furthermore, China should be allowed to convert part of its foreign exchange reserves into assets denominated in the International Monetary Fund s special drawing rights (SDRs).

One proposal calls for taxing national and international financial transactions. Others call for allocating Special Drawing Rights (SDR s) from the IMF, or for using the IMF s gold resources.

In September 2009, the IMF distributed to its members 283 billion worth of Special Drawing Rights, an arcane financial instrument, but one that essentially constitutes additional foreign exchange.

More concessional finance will be available for low income countries, and international liquidity will be increased by a hand out of 250 billion in special drawing rights (SDRs).

The Human Rights Council could benefit from the timely participation of special procedures, including through interactive dialogue addressing follow up and drawing attention to situations requiring urgent action.

The other fashionable policy idea that will ultimately prove impractical is to transform the IMF credits known as Special Drawing Rights into an international currency to rival the dollar.

We are also prepared to consider the impact of issuing special drawing rights with a view to eliminating the instability and financial imbalances that are overwhelming the developing world.

China, Brazil, and Russia have offered ambitious proposals, which may bear fruit in 10 or 20 years, to make the International Monetary Fund s Special Drawing Rights a true international currency.

Enhancing the role of its Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), or supplementing the dollar with another world reserve currency, would help facilitate the financing needs of both deficit and surplus countries.

The US ought not to shy away from wider use of IMF Special Drawing Rights. Because SDRs are denominated in several national currencies, no single currency would enjoy an unfair advantage.

But the consensus in Beijing was that the G 20 should adopt a modest proposal this year a limited expansion of the International Monetary Fund s current system of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).

Such reforms should work towards developing a multilaterally agreed multi currency reserve system or even, in the longer term, a world currency based on the Special Drawing Rights issued by the IMF.

Let me recall that in 1997 the issuance of special drawing rights was approved, supported by 133 countries representing 77.3 per cent of the voting power of the International Monetary Fund countries (IMF).

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The first element of reform should be to give a greater role to the only true international money that the world now has the IMF s Special Drawing Rights, created in 1969 as the result of another dollar crisis.

CAMBRIDGE Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People s Bank of China, recently suggested that replacing the dollar with the International Monetary Fund s Special Drawing Rights as the dominant reserve currency would bring greater stability to the global financial system.

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BERKELEY Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People s Bank of China, made a splash prior to the recent G 20 summit by arguing that the International Monetary Fund s Special Drawing Rights should replace the dollar as the world s reserve currency.

This will be sufficient to enable the IMF to come to the aid of specific countries in trouble, but it will not provide a systemic solution without conditionality. Such a solution is readily available in the form of Special Drawing Rights (SDR).

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The Special Drawing Right, the IMF issued reserve currency based on a basket comprising the dollar, euro, yen, and pound sterling, may play a useful role here.

Mr. Pinheiro described the outcome of the fifty sixth session of the Sub Commission, drawing attention to the appointment of new special rapporteurs and subjects for investigation.