Mohan, Patra and KaPur 1 adB • CIGI • hKIMr The BRICS and aSIa, CuRRenCy InTeRnaTIonalIzaTIon and InTeRnaTIonal MoneTaRy RefoRM CURRENCy INTERNATIONALIzATION AND REFORMS IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARy SySTEM ACRONYMS This paper attempts to evaluate the proposals on various facets of the IMS that are on the table, and ADB. [...] What the crisis macroeconomic and financial stability and continued has shown, however, is that the imperfections of the capital account management by the EDEs on the IMS feed and facilitate developments and policies one hand, and the central banks in the major AEs that are ultimately unsustainable and expose the internalizing the implications of their monetary system to risks and severe shocks, w [...] Mohan, Patra and KaPur 3 adB • CIGI • hKIMr The BRICS and aSIa, CuRRenCy InTeRnaTIonalIzaTIon and InTeRnaTIonal MoneTaRy RefoRM CURRENCy INTERNATIONALIzATION AND REFORMS IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARy SySTEM This paper attempts to evaluate the proposals on consists of four elements: exchange arrangements various facets of the IMS that are on the table, and to and exchange rates; [...] Analogously, the lowest variability in system in the early 1970s led to the introduction of inflation seems to have been in the 1970s for the the prevailing system of floating exchange rates, free AEs and in the 2000s for the EDEs. [...] Consistent with the Great Moderation hypothesis, Symptoms of Malfunction real GDP growth over the Great Moderation period The increase in the incidence of crises of various (1984–2007) (3.0 percent) in the AEs was almost the types in comparison to past eras of the IMS — a same as in the preceding 14-year period (3.1 percent notable feature of the post-Bretton Woods period — during 1970–1983), whil