2d400d0346f86f6c10312a05_dr2103c.jpg Dean Rohrer

A Modest Proposal for the G-20

In March, a group of international scholars and policymakers met in Beijing to discuss reform of the international monetary system. The consensus was that the G-20 should adopt a modest proposal this year: a limited expansion of the International Monetary Fund’s current system of Special Drawing Rights.

BEIJING – In March, at a meeting in Beijing organized by Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue and China’s Central University of Finance and Economics, scholars and policymakers discussed how to reform the international monetary system. After all, even if the system did not directly cause the recent imbalances and instability in the global economy, it proved ineffective in addressing them.

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