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A world currency unit is a concept of monetary foreign exchange that surfaced after the Great Depression and the financial crisis created by World War II uncovered the deficiencies of the gold standard. Whereas during the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (Bretton Woods) negotiations British delegate John Maynard Keynes favoured the bancor, the United States' delegation preferred US Dollar hegemony with the dollar priced against gold. There are two different types of World Currency Unit in use today that have different origins and usages. == History == The WCU was proposed by Lok Sang Ho of Lingnan University, Hong Kong. The WCU was first intended to be the basis for denominating global bonds, a debt instrument that is issued globally and is subscribable by people and institutions around the world. Simply put, it is a GDP-weighted basket of key currencies each of which is indexed against inflation for the relevant countries. The WCU is defined with respect to a base year, so that each unit represents the same global purchasing power as at that base year. The unindexed basket, called the benchmark basket of key currencies, is the basis for the derivation of effective exchange rate indices that has been demonstrated to be both easy to compile and superior to most official effective exchange rate indices. The WOCU is more closely tied to the Bretton Woods era and agreements and is more Eurocentric in its currency outlook. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「World currency unit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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