Criteria for Broadening the SDR Currency Basket.

The paper explores the pros and cons of maintaining the current 'freely usable currency' criterion, and clarifies indicators for assessing it. The freely usable concept and its two key elements-currencies should be "widely used" and "widely traded"-are set out in the Ar...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011.
Series:Policy Papers; Policy Paper ; No. 2011/077
Online Access:Full text available on IMF