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Is Dollarisation a Viable Option for Latin America?

In: International Finance and the Developing Economies

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  • Graham Bird

    (University of Surrey)

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In January 2000 Ecuador announced that it was replacing its own currency (the sucre) with the US dollar; a process known as ‘dollarisation’. Although in parts of Latin America the dollar has been used unofficially as a medium of exchange for many years and frequently has been preferred by some nationals to their domestic currency, this was the first time that a country that had previously had its own currency had opted to abandon it and to replace it officially with the US dollar. Panama, which also uses the dollar as legal tender, has never had its own currency. Argentina, with a currency board arrangement in place since 1991 (effectively tying the quantity of pesos to foreign exchange reserves), has seriously contemplated going to the next stage in the form of dollarisation but has yet to make the move.

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  • Graham Bird, 2004. "Is Dollarisation a Viable Option for Latin America?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: International Finance and the Developing Economies, chapter 4, pages 51-59, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59984-0_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230599840_4
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