The Crisis of the Breton Woods Conference

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The bretonwoods conference essentially was not accompanied by a series of subsequent and international conferences over crises. By and large, it managed to avoid e crises for much of the 19 fifties and sixties. And when the crises did appear, it had some tools available to initially contain them. It took until 19 58 for breton woods to become operational in the first place. Some were cans who passed away in 19 forty six almost hoped it would never become operational at some point.

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