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Special Drawing Rights  

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  • The special drawing right (SDR) was created by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1969 as an artificial international reserve asset. The SDR was created as a unit of account involving transactions of the IMF. At the time it was created, its gold value was the same as that of the U.S. dollar. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World; Special Drawing Rights]

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