Unit 3 Vocabulary
Across
- 2. Provision linking printed money to gold
- 3. International agreement aimed at reducing trade barriers
- 6. UN agency providing loans to financially struggling developing countries
- 8. Financial help provided by the government to support an industry
- 9. Term for a country's overall economic output
- 10. Proportional shares paid by member countries to the IMF
- 13. Economic system based on individual freedom and private property
- 14. Situation where the amount of currency increases but its purchasing power decreases
- 15. Treaty signed in 1992 by Canada, US, and Mexico to remove trade barriers
- 17. Number of countries involved in establishing the Bretton Woods system
- 18. System established to regulate the postwar global economy
- 19. The city where the Bretton Woods Agreement was forged
- 20. Value of a country's currency as determined by its government
Down
- 1. An agreement established after WWII to regulate the postwar global economy
- 4. Period of reduced economic activity lasting more than two quarters
- 5. Organization controlling the World Bank and IMF
- 7. Economic event characterized by high unemployment and low production
- 11. Group of countries with similar economic interests sometimes form a _____ ____.
- 12. Global network of institutions promoting international trade and currency regulation
- 16. Currency rates determined by the foreign exchange market