The result was the United Nations, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and the
Bretton Woods Conference which led to the establishment of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Formed in 1944 at the
Bretton Woods Conference primarily by the ideas of Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes, it came into formal existence in 1945 with 29 member countries and the goal of reconstructing the international payment system.
The setting-up of IMF and World Bank as a result of
Bretton Woods Conference was also a step in the same direction.
That is why the 44 countries that participated in the 1944
Bretton Woods Conference agreed on a framework to ensure stable exchange rates.
Nonetheless, in 2019, 75 years after the
Bretton Woods conference, New Zealand policy-makers still favour an international financial and monetary system that allows ready financing of deficits rather than demanding austerity.
They are products of the
Bretton Woods conference of 1944.
In 1944, the
Bretton Woods conference laid the groundwork for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and other global financial institutions; the establishment of the United Nations soon followed.
Like its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), it was created in 1944 at the
Bretton Woods Conference held in the aftermath of the war.
The 1944
Bretton Woods conference made it clear that the era of European empire was over.
A bomb-scarred Britain was the birthplace of the NHS, and in July 1944 the foundations of the modern economic order were laid at the
Bretton Woods Conference.
Caption: Bretton Woods: In 1944, the
Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire produced plans for a postwar global economic and financial order, which included a World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
The
Bretton Woods conference held at a resort in New Hampshire, United States, set the process in motion.