In November, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed to add the renminbi to its Special Drawing Rights (SDR), a type
of international reserve asset.
Not exact matches
Boockvar said that if China were to take such a daring step, it could ruin its chances
of being accepted into the
International Monetary Fund's basket
of special drawing rights currencies — IMF - issued
reserve assets — in October 2016.
The underlying determinants for these declines are related to the global supply and demand for funds, including shifting demographics, slower trend productivity and economic growth, emerging markets seeking large
reserves of safe
assets, and a more general global savings glut (Council
of Economic Advisers 2015,
International Monetary Fund 2014, Rachel and Smith 2015, Caballero, Farhi, and Gourinchas 2016).
An additional factor which has, at the margin, increased the demand for Australian - dollar
assets is demand from other central banks to hold Australian dollars as part
of their
international reserves.
The SDR was created as a supplementary
international reserve asset in the context
of the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system.
Other options include the transfer
of IMF - created «special drawing rights» (
reserve assets created by the
International Monetary Fund that countries can exchange for hard currency) from rich to poorer countries, redirecting harmful fossil - fuel subsidies, reducing spending on ballooning military budgets, and taxing aviation and shipping.