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United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has already accused China of currency manipulation.

National narratives are, indeed, a type of currency.

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.

The US Treasury has been charged by Congress to assess whether China is a currency manipulator.

When the East Bloc unraveled, India had to start paying for imports in hard cash.

A higher foreign currency LDR will mean tighter restrictions on long renminbi positions.

Argentina adopted the hardest peg, introducing a quasi currency board and fixing the exchange rate by law.

It hardly makes sense for it to denominate oil prices in the currency of only one of its customers.

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

These archaic sections corresponded to behavior originating in the colonial period, when virginity and the payment of dowries were valued as currency.

Obama s presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, has promised to declare China guilty of currency manipulation the day he takes office.

They are also frustrated that the US Treasury has not named and shamed China by designating it a currency manipulator.

I. The reception, brokerage, and investment of third parties' funds in Brazilian or foreign currency

(i) The net settlement of payments due in the same currency on the same date whether by notation or otherwise

Before the crisis struck in 1998 he put in place measures giving him room to manipulate liquidity and interest rates.

The irony again lost on Romney is that other countries are accusing the US of currency manipulation.

Whether one views this as currency manipulation or as an accidental by product of lower interest rates is irrelevant.

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

The hawaladar in Somalia receives the money in hard currency, mostly United States dollars, and makes the relevant transfer to the corresponding foreign hawaladar office.

American Congressmen view the Chinese as archetypal currency manipulators, but the Swiss have introduced a firm cap on the franc s appreciation.

In June, the Euro 2012 football (soccer) championship readily lent itself as an analogy to the turmoil surrounding Europe s single currency.

The resulting perception that currency risk was declining bolstered capital inflows further.

Of course, the actual payment will be made in ordinary currency at the contemporaneous exchange rate, based on the consumer price index, between baskets and the currency.

Imposing unilateral duties after unilaterally labeling China a currency manipulator would undermine the multilateral system, with little payoff.

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

However, in 1857, the decision was made to introduce a decimal coinage into the Province of Canada in conjunction with the U.S. dollar unit.

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

In fact, following the recent currency fiasco, North Korean leaders may have become more open to economic reform than ever before.

Gross proceeds from the sale of cards and products are recorded in foreign currency and accrued on the basis of the provisional sales reports received from the sales partners at year end.

While the euro has not caused France s economic problems, its politicians commitment to the single currency represents an insurmountable barrier to solving them.

More recently, when the United States Congress threatened legislation against Chinese currency manipulation, China allowed the renminbi to appreciate against the dollar by a couple of percentage points.

The decision process and its execution are duly authorized on the deal transaction sheet by the Treasurer and the senior officer in charge for each individual currency and deposit transaction.

With the Tea Party wing of America s Republican Party scaring investors out of the dollar, interest in the Chinese renminbi s potential as an international reserve currency can only increase.

Low inflation, no currency risk, decreased transaction costs, and greater transparency have made the euro a success.

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.

Wherever you look, the price tag put on Europe these days is calculated in euros and cents and no longer in political and historical currency.

Even if most eurozone countries retain the single currency, it will be because abandoning the euro would be financially painful.

In principle, it is easy to avoid currency appreciation keep the foreign exchange earned from, say, oil exports out of the country.

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.