[was: RE: [PEN-L:22833] RE: IMF, USAID, & Afghanistan (by George Monbiot)]
> >...On January 29, the IMF's assistant director for monetary and > >exchange affairs suggested that the country [Afghanistan] > should abandon > its > >currency and adopt the dollar instead. > > My alternative proposal -- that Argentina should peg its > currency to the > Afghani -- met with but scant support :) actually, it might make sense for the main South American currencies to peg their currencies _to each other_ rather than to the dollar (or to what's the name of that European currency...? ;-)) Jim Devine
