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Fixed currency Anchor currency Rate (anchor / fixed) Abkhazian apsar: Russian ruble: 0.1 Alderney pound (only coins) [1]: Pound sterling: 1 Aruban florin: U.S. dollar: 1.79
Currency ISO 4217 Code Central bank Peg Anguilla: East Caribbean dollar: XCD: Eastern Caribbean Central Bank: 2.70 XCD = 1.00 USD Antigua and Barbuda Dominica Grenada Montserrat Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Aruba: Aruban florin: AWG: Central Bank of Aruba: 1.79 AWG = 1.00 USD Bahamas: Bahamian dollar: BSD
In 1949, the British government formalized the dollar system of accounts in British Guiana and the Eastern Caribbean territories by introducing the British West Indies dollar (BWI$) at the already existing conversion rate of $4.80 per pound sterling (or $1 = 4 shillings 2 pence). It was one of the many experimental political and economic ...
Eastern Caribbean dollar: EC$ XCD Cent: 100 Saint Lucia: Eastern Caribbean dollar: EC$ XCD Cent: 100 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Eastern Caribbean dollar: EC$ XCD Cent: 100 Samoa: Samoan tālā $ WST Sene: 100 San Marino: Euro € EUR Cent: 100 São Tomé and Príncipe: São Tomé and Príncipe dobra: Db STN Cêntimo: 100 Saudi Arabia ...
In many countries there is a distinction between the official exchange rate for permitted transactions within the country, and a parallel exchange rate (or black market, grey, unregulated, unofficial, etc. exchange rate) that responds to excess demand for foreign currency at the official exchange rate.
In macroeconomics and modern monetary policy, a devaluation is an official lowering of the value of a country's currency within a fixed exchange-rate system, in which a monetary authority formally sets a lower exchange rate of the national currency in relation to a foreign reference currency or currency basket.
De Facto Classification of Exchange Rate Arrangements, as of April 30, 2021, and Monetary Policy Frameworks [2]; Exchange rate arrangement (Number of countries) Exchange rate anchor
Before 1976, the EC dollar was pegged to the British pound sterling (GBP) at an exchange rate of EC$4.80 to £1.00. [3] However, since 7 July 1976, the EC dollar has been pegged to the US dollar at a fixed rate of EC$2.70 to US$1.00. [3] The fixed exchange rate allows for macroeconomic stability, low inflation, and growth of the financial ...