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Bretton Woods Committee

The Bretton Woods Committee is an American organization created in 1983 as a result of the agreement between U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Fowler, and U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Charls Walker – at the time a Democrat and a Republican, respectively. The agreement they arrived upon was that world leaders should express to the public the significance of international finance institutions , like the Bretton Woods Institutions, and how important it was for their prominence in the world to be maintained. Wikipedia*

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Bretton Woods Committee has hosted 19 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1989 Speech. The year with the most events was 1998 with five events. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2011 with an average of 347 views per video. Most appearances with Henry Owen (11), Charls Walker (6), Michel Camdessus (4). Most common tags: International Trade, Developing Countries.

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    Global Economic Outlook, Part 1

    The Bretton Woods Committee held their annual meeting in Washington, D.C., to discuss the global economic outlook. The commit…

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    Global Economic Outlook, Part 3

    Michael Froman spoke at the Bretton Woods Committee annual meeting. He stressed the Obama administration’s position that prot…

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    Global Economic Outlook, Part 2

    The Bretton Woods Committee held their annual meeting in Washington, D.C., to consider the global economic outlook. In this p…

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    State of the Global Economy

    World Bank President Robert Zoellick talked about developing economies in the Middle East and Africa. He emphasized the impor…

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