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REPORT Economic GrowthGlobalization and TradeWorld

Money for Nothing: The Increasing Cost of Foreign Reserve Holdings to Developing Nations

November 2001, Dean Baker and Karl Walentin

The rise in the ratio of reserve holdings to GDP among developing nations over the last four decades is a striking but little noted phenomenon. The paper explores this increase in reserves and its enormous cost to developing nations.

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