He was adamant that "convertibility" would be the cornerstone of his policy - and he kept his word when he got the job in December 1999. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference
Rupee convertibility would cut through yet more red tape. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Certainly the swaps should not be mistaken for full yuan convertibility. From Wordnik.com. [China's Yuan Ambitions] Reference
China has allowed yuan convertibility for commercial purposes since 1996. From Wordnik.com. [Yuanzone Baby Steps] Reference
Note that bankruptcy itself constitutes an enforced suspension of convertibility. From Wordnik.com. [Lacker Speech on Financial Stability] Reference
Hong Kong's experiments with yuan convertibility will be the most important to watch. From Wordnik.com. [China's Yuan Ambitions] Reference
The Central Bank often delays or restricts convertibility, especially for consumer goods. From Wordnik.com. [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference
The biggest obstacle is that capital account convertibility for the yuan is still a long way off. From Wordnik.com. [Internationalizing the Yuan] Reference
In 1971, US president Richard Nixon unilaterally ended the dollar's fixed rate convertibility into gold. From Wordnik.com. [SA needs a diversity of media ownership] Reference
Not so in India, where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week proposed full convertibility of the rupee. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
But this coin should be subject to the same rule, as to issue and convertibility, as other forms of money. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
The second change is the elimination, for domestic purposes, of the convertibility of the currency into gold. From Wordnik.com. [Taxes For Revenue Are Obsolete] Reference
"To be a truly global financial center, you need to have full convertibility of the currency," says Keith Noyes. From Wordnik.com. [In Shanghai, Banks Get a Haven and a Hub] Reference
Yet while the swap arrangements do not signal full convertibility, they are an important step in that direction. From Wordnik.com. [China's Yuan Ambitions] Reference
Another small step forward in cross-Strait ties is expanded currency convertibility between the yuan and the Taiwan dollar. From Wordnik.com. [Shedding Taiwan's Straitjacket] Reference
"The government has no intention or plan to introduce any change to the system, including the existing convertibility zone.". From Wordnik.com. [HKMA Affirms Dollar Peg] Reference
The phrase "Correlation of Forces" is employed rather to express their mutual convertibility, or change from one to the others. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
Grove, was the relation between mechanical power and heat, and the convertibility of each into the other, which, under the name of. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885] Reference
The mathematician proves the identity of propositions that have the same mathematical value and significance by their convertibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference
A sustainable development path requires that certain conditions be in place before proceeding to full capital account convertibility. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
So when the dollar convertibility into gold was suspended, the value of that debt soared, threatening the survival of many institutions. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference
"We have to stop the free convertibility of the ringgit and to reassert the sovereignty of government over our currency," Mahathir said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The inflows were assisted by auxiliary factors such as the removal of exchange controls as well as gradual move to capital convertibility. From Wordnik.com. [ACCELERATING THE PACE OF CHANGE] Reference
Political stability, growth rate, market size, currency convertibility, levels of domestic savings and infrastructure, make up the balance. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"A sustainable development path requires that certain conditions be in place before proceeding to full capital account convertibility," he said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Meanwhile, a link to the yuan would be practically inconceivable without full convertibility of the Chinese currency -- a distant prospect anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Tsang's Loose Lips] Reference
When the premature convertibility came about on July 15, 1947, it was untenable, given the immediate run on the pound, and was abandoned on Aug. 20. From Wordnik.com. [Losing Hope, Glory and Assets] Reference
In 19th century U.S. banking panics, banks preserved their liquidity, individually, by suspending the convertibility of their deposits into currency. From Wordnik.com. [Lacker Speech on Financial Stability] Reference
Alongside signs of hardening attitudes, some market-based reforms have continued, such as moves to increase the convertibility of the Chinese currency. From Wordnik.com. [China's Raising the Drawbridge -- Softly] Reference
The currency would rest upon the presumption that all paper money rests upon, that its use and convenience and convertibility will always keep it at par with coin. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Wednesday's announcement "is one of several measures that will get them closer to the end result, which is full convertibility" of the yuan, said Paresh Upadhyaya. From Wordnik.com. [China Eases Currency Rules] Reference
Further, the central bank (or equivalent in those days) had to maintain stores of gold sufficient to back the circulating currency (at the agreed convertibility rate). From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Auerback: The US Dollar: Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!] Reference
The de facto central bank, which bought the U.S. dollars within the trading band, has said it would intervene in the market to keep its currency in the convertibility zone. From Wordnik.com. [Hong Kong again steps in] Reference
HODSON: In the 20th century, leading currencies abandoned any connection or convertibility to gold -- the British pound and French franc in the 1930s and the dollar in 1973. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Making Money - January 3, 2000] Reference
The auction failures in auction rate securities bear a resemblance to 19th century suspensions of convertibility in that liability holders were converted into less liquid claims. From Wordnik.com. [Lacker Speech on Financial Stability] Reference
He said Malaysia thoroughly studied currency trading and concluded that the free convertibility of the local currency, the ringgit, exposed it to attacks of the currency traders. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
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