Major industrial nations fall suddenly in the Great Depression of 1930s. All countries gain from trade without restrictions. According to this theory of free trade, the market of all industries was enhanced. The distributional concerns are taken in to account. Some of the industries lose out even as others benefit in any given country. (IMF2006)
“The IMF was conceived in July 1944, when representatives of 45 governments meeting in the town of Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in the northeastern United States, agreed on a framework for international economic cooperation.” (IMF 2006) In this meeting, a charter of an international institution was drafted to oversee the international monetary system and to promote both the elimination of exchange restrictions relating to trade in goods and services, and the stability of exchange rates. The IMP played a critical role to stabilize the exchange rate, prevent crisis, and resolution of crisis.
The countries who joined to the IMP agreed to keep their exchange rates pegged at rates that could be adjusted only to correct a “fundamental disequilibrium” in the balance of payments and only with the IMF’s agreement. The exchange rates pegged at rate means that the value of countries’ currencies in terms of the U.S. dollar and,