Exchange rates show the cost of trading one currency for another. High domestic interest rates can increase a currency's value by attracting investors. Political unrest or economic instability can ...

This classification system is based on members' actual, de facto, arrangements as identified by IMF staff, which may differ from their officially announced arrangements. The scheme ranks exchange rate ...

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The Economic Issues series was inaugurated in September 1996. Its aim is to make some of the economic research being produced in the International Monetary Fund on topical issues accessible to a broad ...