The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were created at the conference at Bretton Woods in 1944 as a means to regulate trade between nations in the aftermath of the Great Depression and World War II.

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More than a few observers have dubbed this meeting Bretton Woods II, a reference to the 1944 international conference that established the post-World War II monetary system.

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