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Capital controls were an integral part of the Bretton Woods system which emerged after World War II and lasted until the early 1970s. This period was the first time capital controls had been endorsed by mainstream economics. Capital controls were relatively easy to impose, in part because international capital markets were less active in ...
Cusco is declared the "historical capital" (Spanish: capital histórica), by Article 49 of the Peruvian Constitution, a merely symbolic statement. Arequipa is deemed the "legal capital" as it is the seat of the Constitutional Court. Lisbon Portugal: Europe: Ljubljana Slovenia: Lobamba (royal and legislative) Eswatini: Africa: Mbabane ...
Argentina's leading conservative presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich said on Thursday that the country's strict capital controls were an "instrument of torture" that she would look to quickly ...
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Argentina installed foreign exchange controls in 2011, at the beginning of the second presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Those controls limited the ability to buy or sell any foreign currency. The restriction was informally known in Argentina as Cepo cambiario (Spanish for 'exchange clamp').
Exchange controls such as these were imposed by the South African government to restrict the outflow of capital from the country. The South African financial rand was the most visible part of a system of capital controls. Although the financial rand was abolished in March 1995, some capital controls remain in place.
It then reappeared between 1939 and 1967. After a very short interruption, exchange controls were restored in 1968, relaxed in 1984, and finally abolished in 1989. [1] Francoist Spain kept foreign exchange controls from the Spanish Civil War to the 1970s. [citation needed] Other countries that formerly had exchange controls in the modern period ...